A perspective on psychosis in late life and deficits in social cognition

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 190-197

  Salvia, Elizabeth La ^a   Chemali, Zeina ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Late paraphrenia; Late life depression; Late life psychosis; Late onset schizophrenia; Social cognition; Theory of mind; Very late onset schizophrenia like psychosis

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PATIENT; MENTAL TASK; MOOD; ONSET AGE; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION DEFICIT;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960955268     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10673229.2011.599184     Document Type: Review

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