Clinical Characteristics of Delusional Disorder
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Clinical characteristics of late-onset schizophrenia and delusional disorder.
We compared 20 patients with late-onset schizophrenia, 7 with delusional disorder with hallucinations (paraphrenia), and 13 with delusional disorder without hallucinations (late-onset paranoia). We found that these three categories could be distinguished from each other on some clinical parameters. Late-onset schizophrenia was characterized by bizarre delusions; auditory hallucinations; to a le...
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The term “paranoia” is derived from a Greek words meaning “madness”, “beside”, and “mind”. The term was used to describe a mental illness in which a delusional belief is the sole or most prominent feature. Kraepelin used the term “pure paranoia” to describe a condition in which a delusions was present, but without any apparent deterioration in intellect and without any of the other features of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370104600619