Insight and paranoid disorders in late life (Late paraphrenia)
O.P. Almeida
Bok Engelsk 1996
Utgitt | 1996
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Omfang | Side 653- 658
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Opplysninger | Forty elderly patients with late paraphrenia completed a standardizedassessment of insight into psychosis along with a detailed cognitiveand psychometric evaluation. Overall, the group had poorer insightthan a comparable group of early onset schizophrenic patients.Insight was correlated with positive symptoms but appeared unrelatedto negative symptoms, performance on neuropsychological testsincluding those of executive function, plus illness course andduration.
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Emner |