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Hallucinations and Delusions in Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Suzanne Holroyd
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

Extract

Hallucinations and delusions have been described in all types of dementia, including vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and dementia associated with Parkinson's disease. They have been recognized in Alzheimer's disease (AD) since the illness was first described (Alzheimer, 1957).

Type
Phenomenology
Copyright
© 2000 International Psychogeriatric Association

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