Abstract
Sixty-five psychotic patients with unequivocal evidence of brain pathology and a variety of neurological disorders were assessed with respect to phenomenology and outcome. No relationship was found between site of brain pathology and type of psychotic disorder. A majority of patients had a syndrome indistinguishable from schizophrenia without coarse brain involvement and shared similar variables predicting outcome of psychosis, thus raising important issues concerning their nosological status.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Affective Disorders, Psychotic / diagnosis
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Affective Disorders, Psychotic / psychology
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Aged
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Brain Damage, Chronic / diagnosis*
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Brain Damage, Chronic / psychology
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Delusions / diagnosis
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Delusions / psychology
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Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
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Electroencephalography
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Neurocognitive Disorders / diagnosis*
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Neurocognitive Disorders / psychology
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Neuropsychological Tests
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Prognosis
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Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
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Schizophrenia / diagnosis
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Schizophrenic Psychology
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Shared Paranoid Disorder / diagnosis
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Shared Paranoid Disorder / psychology
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed