paraphrenia

Studies suggest that the prevalence of paraphrenia in the elderly population is around 2-4%.

His cause of death was officially listed as paraphrenia and exhaustion.

Patients also present with a lack of symptoms commonly found in other mental disorders similar to paraphrenia.

While these factors do not cause paraphrenia, they do make individuals more likely to develop the disorder later in life.

Patients presenting with paraphrenia were most often found to be living by themselves (either single, widowed, or divorced).

The main symptoms of paraphrenia are paranoid delusions and hallucinations.

Among the common characteristics of a guru he notes paraphrenia, a mental illness that completely cuts the individual from reality.

Paraphrenia: This is a type of schizophrenia that starts late in life and occurs in the elderly population.

As such, paraphrenia is seen as being distinct from both schizophrenia and progressive dementia in old age.

Recently therapists have also been classifying paraphrenia as very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis.

While paraphrenia can occur in both men and women, it is more common in women, even after the difference has been adjusted for life expectancies.

Most of the traits recognized prior to the onset of paraphrenia in individuals can be grouped as either paranoid or schizoid.

He was diagnosed from his psychiatrist, Dr. Calzadilla as suffering from paraphrenia, sometimes considered a form of schizophrenia.

Even when abbreviated down to the prefix para-, the term crops up causing trouble as the contentious but stubbornly persistent concept of paraphrenia."

Ravindran (1999) developed a list of criteria for the diagnosis of paraphrenia, which agrees with much of the research done up to the time it was published.

Recovery from the psychotic symptoms seems to be rare, and in most cases paraphrenia results in in-patient status for the remainder of the life of the patient.

It is suggested that individuals who develop paraphrenia later in life have premorbid personalities, and can be described as "quarrelsome, religious, suspicious or sensitive, unsociable and cold-hearted."

In their analyses of mental disorders, Kahlbaum and Hecker introduced a classification system that used descriptive terms such as dysthymia, cyclothymia, catatonia, paraphrenia and hebephrenia.

The majority of hallucinations associated with paraphrenia are auditory, with 75% of patients reporting such an experience; however, visual, tactile, and olfactory hallucinations have also been reported.

His study suggested that there was little to no discrimination between schizophrenia and paraphrenia; given enough time, patients presenting with paraphrenia will merge into the schizophrenic pool.

The development of paranoia and hallucinations in old age have been related to both auditory and visual impairment, and individuals with paraphrenia often present with one or both of these impairments.

The term precocious dementia for a mental illness suggested that a type of mental illness like schizophrenia (including paranoia and decreased cognitive capacity) could be expected to arrive normally in all persons with greater age (see paraphrenia).

Many patients who present with paraphrenia have significant auditory or visual loss, are socially isolated with a lack of social contact, do not have a permanent home, are unmarried and without children, and have maladaptive personality traits.

For example, in 1918, priest of Liège Hubert Bourguet published a 50-page brochure in which he expressed concerns on the doctrines, qualified the sacred texts of Antoinism as "gibberish" and concluded that Antoine would have suffered from paraphrenia.

The term was also used by Emil Kraepelin in 1919, who changed its meaning to describe paraphrenia as it is understood today, as a small group of individuals that have many of the symptoms of schizophrenia with a lack of deterioration and thought disorder.