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Insight and paranoid disorders in late life (late paraphenia)
Author(s) -
Almeida Osvaldo P.,
Levy Raymond,
Howard Robert J.,
David Anthony S.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199607)11:7<653::aid-gps380>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - neuropsychology , psychology , psychiatry , psychosis , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , paranoid schizophrenia , clinical psychology , cognition , psychometrics , neuropsychological assessment , executive functions , neuropsychological test , paranoid disorders , medicine
Forty elderly patients with late paraphrenia completed a standardized assessment of insight into psychosis along with a detailed cognitive and psychometric evaluation. Overall, the group had poorer insight than a comparable group of early onset schizophrenic patients. Insight was correlated with positive symptoms but appeared unrelated to negative symptoms, performance on neuropsychological tests including those of executive function, plus illness course and duration.