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Late paraphrenia — a follow-up study

✍ Scribed by Nigel Hymas; Mohsen Naguib; Raymond Levy

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
541 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

We report a 3.7 year follow-up study carried out on 42 patients with an original diagnosis of late paraphrenia who had had a CT scan and simple tests of cognition in addition to an assessment by means of the Geriatric Mental State Schedule. Mortality was found to be no different than in a control group. Patients showed improvement in target symptoms but exhibited a good deal of residual morbidity, particularly of motor and cognitive function. Cognitive performance, which was previously mildly impaired, showed some futher deterioration, usually falling short of clear-cut dementia. Ventricular size on the CT scan was not a predictor of outcome. The article highlights the organic substrate of late paraphrenia but suggests that the cerebral changes are relatively subtle and slowly progressive.

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