Psychiatric morbidity in elderly with sleep disorders; neglected ... Undiagnosed or ... Overestimated?!
✍ Scribed by Emad Salib; George Tadros; Sheila Cawley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
after prolonged behavioural manipulation, may be directly linked with the psychopathological features exhibited by our patient, especially with the aective component and delusional experiences.
To date there are no reports of acute psychotic episode resulting from the continuous playing of video games. Although isolated behavioural changes have been previously described in children and adolescents, this is the very ®rst time that more systematized psychopathological features have been reported in an elderly individual. This suggests that overexpression of extracellular dopamine (Koepp et al., 1998) in the brain tissue may be linked to overt transiently experienced psychosis. This also raises the possibility that in the near future, video games may represent an additional risk factor to be considered in the aetiology of late onset psychopathology.