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Delusions in Alzheimer ’ s Disease
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kwak, Yong Tae Yang, Youngsoon |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with cognitive and functional impairment as well as neuropsychiatric complications, including psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. Recent studies strongly suggest that delusions should be separated from hallucinations. While AD with delusions is a phenotypically distinct from AD without delusions, subtypes of delusions may also define further distinct clinical entities. There has been also considerable debate as to whether delusions in patients with AD differ etiologically, phenomenologically, and therapeutically from delusions in other primary psychiatric illnesses. In other words, whether they are caused by changes to key areas of the brain that have been linked to the presence of delusions. This has led to speculation that these symptoms may respond better to certain drugs such as cholinesterase inhibitors. Integrating the epidemiology, clinical phenomenology, neuropathological and genetic literature for delusions in AD allows us to speculate on pathophysiology and is essential to making progress in the area of delusions in AD. Received: July 15, 2014 Revision received: August 24, 2014 Accepted: August 24, 2014 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://synapse.koreamed.org/Synapse/Data/PDFData/0196DND/dnd-13-63.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Belief revision Cholinesterase Inhibitors Cognition Delusions Entity Hallucinations Illness (finding) Mental disorders Patients Psychotic Disorders Subtype (attribute) |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
