Ryan Carnahan, ’01 PharmD, and Adjunct Instructor for the College of Pharmacy, will launch a dementia study with support from a new federal agency created by the Affordable Care Act. In the study, he will test whether activities and more thorough medical workups for dementia patients might reduce the use of anti-psychotic drugs, which run the risk of side effects such as strokes, movement problems and lethargy.

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