[ABSTRACT] We want to actualize the treatment of the so called psychological and behavioral symptoms in the demented patients (SCDP), so defined as disorders of perception, thought content, mood and conduct wich frequently are present in the patients with dementiaThe importance of these symptoms is determinated by their frecuency, but, above all, by the consequences over the quality of life of the patient and their carers, and over the consecuences on the premature admision to an instituti