1. KEY PAPERS IN OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY SERIES EDITOR: ALISTAIR BURNS.
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Burns, Alistair
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SCHIZOPHRENIA , *PATIENTS , *SENILE dementia , *DIAGNOSIS , *PSYCHOSES - Abstract
The article presents research papers on clinical observations and follow-up patients at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, England. There are eight chapters that presents background, aims, method and clinical characteristics of patients. In the first chapter, Felix Post summarizes present knowledge of late paraphrenia, drawing on the clinical descriptions of earlier workers and emphasizing the relative rarity of descriptions of schizophrenia occurring after the age of 50 or 60 and the difficulty early nosologists had in making the differentiation from senile psychosis.
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- 1996
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