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Late paraphrenia

✍ Scribed by David Castle

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 51 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199911)14:11<983::aid-gps27>3.0.co;2-x

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✦ Synopsis

Dear Editor

I write in response to some of the issues raised by Roth and Kay in their recent review of late paraphrenia (LP) in the Journal (1998; 13: 775± 784). The review provides a useful update on LP, including modern epidemiological, neurposychological, brain imaging and postmortem studies. However, the conclusion reached, that LP is merely a late-onset form of what is considered a `single disorder, namely schizophrenia', I ®nd questionable, on a number of grounds:

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