A Comment on Late-onset Schizophrenia
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Late-onset schizophrenia and late paraphrenia.
The term "late-onset schizophrenia" was first coined by Manfred Bleuler (1943) to describe a form of schizophrenia with an onset between the ages of 40 and 60. This concept has been adopted by German psychiatry. Until recently, British and American psychiatrists had little interest in this patient group. However, they often used the term "late-onset schizophrenia" interchangeably with late para...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/15.2.173