FDA aligns with Cognition on a phase 3 zervimesine trial for Lewy body dementia, testing 100 mg daily for 9 months to target hallucinations.
|Articles|September 24, 2011
Hans Pols bio
Hans Pols, PhD, is senior lecturer at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is interested in the history of psychiatry and the mental hygiene movement in North America and Europe, psychiatric war syndromes, and colonial psychiatry, in particular in the Dutch East Indies.
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Hans Pols, PhD, is senior lecturer at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is interested in the history of psychiatry and the mental hygiene movement in North America and Europe, psychiatric war syndromes, and colonial psychiatry, in particular in the Dutch East Indies.
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