A study of Late Onset Schizophrenia Clinical Characteristics with Review of Literature.
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2009-04
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That schizophrenia does manifest for the first time in old age, has been recognized for a long
time. A number of recent epidemiological studies have also documented its onset in old age. It
has remained controversial, however, if schizophrenia occurring for the first time in old age is
different substantially from schizophrenia manifesting at younger age. A number of efforts
have been going on in recent years in different parts of the world to document differences and
similarity between two groups on parameters like clinical features, family history,
psychopathology, treatment response, and prognosis and outcome. Many studies have appeared
on neuroimaging and neurobiology of late onset schizophrenia. Some efforts have also been
done in India on this entity. The present study is to examine clinical characteristics of late onset
schizophrenia on number of standardized structured instruments. The study compares its results
with some well known studies.
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Late onset schizophrenia, Late paraphrenia, Old age schizophrenia
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Mitali Bhuyan, Khandelwal S K, Gupta S. A study of Late Onset Schizophrenia Clinical Characteristics with Review of Literature. Delhi Psychiatry journal. 2009 Apr; 12 (1): 84-93.