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Prediction of psychosis onset in Alzheimer disease: The role of cognitive impairment, depressive symptoms, and further evidence for psychosis subtypes.
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry - 1 Apr 2006
Wilkosz Patricia A, Miyahara Sachiko, Lopez Oscar L, Dekosky Steven T, Sweet Robert A
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BACKGROUND: Psychotic symptoms in Alzheimer disease (AD+P) identify a heritable phenotype associated with more rapid cognitive decline. The authors have proposed that AD+P is itself a composite of a misidentification and a paranoid subtype with increased cognitive impairment restricted to the misidentification type. Most prior studies of the clinical correlates of AD+P have been limited, however, by the inclusion...
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