LATE-LIFE PARAPHRENIA - AN ORGANIC DELUSIONAL SYNDROME

  • 1 April 1986
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 47  (4) , 204-207
Abstract
Five patients with late-life onset of shizophrenic symptomatology (late-life paraphrenia) were found to have occult organic disorders. Although it was not possible to prove that the organic disorders were causal in these patients, none had any psychiatric illness until late in life and none had any signifiant risk factor for developing schizophrenia. This study demonstrates the need to investigate the medical and neurologic condition of any elderly patient presenting with new onset of delusions. Modern investigative techniques may permit more accurate classification (and therapy) of some patients with late-life paraphrenia.