Alzheimer disease and related neurodegenerative diseases in elderly patients with schizophrenia: A postmortem neuropathologic study of 100 cases

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-211

  Purohit, Dushyant P ^a,b   Perl, Daniel P ^a   Haroutunian, Vahram ^a   Powchik, Peter ^a   Davidson, Michael ^a   Davis, Kenneth L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENILE PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SENILE PLAQUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032498945     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.55.3.205     Document Type: Article

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