Very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: Clinical and imaging characteristics in comparison with elderly patients with schizophrenia

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 190, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 733-736

  Barak, Yoram ^a   Aizenberg, Dov ^b   Mirecki, Ilona ^a   Mazeh, Doron ^a   Achiron, Anat ^c  

^a ABARBANEL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b GEHA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RISPERIDONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; NERVE DEGENERATION; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISPERIDONE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036847672     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200211000-00002     Document Type: Article

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