Onset of schizophrenia at 100 years of age

Although generally regarded as a disease of young adults, schizophrenia does occur in older ages. Doubts have been raised about the validity of diagnosing schizophrenia in very old age. We have described herein a rare and unique case of a woman who had onset of “schizophrenia” as per ICD-10 and DSM-...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Sumit Kumar, Jiloha, Ram Chander, Yadav, Abhilasha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24574565
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.124723
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description Although generally regarded as a disease of young adults, schizophrenia does occur in older ages. Doubts have been raised about the validity of diagnosing schizophrenia in very old age. We have described herein a rare and unique case of a woman who had onset of “schizophrenia” as per ICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR criteria at the age of 100 years. We have discussed about the validity of diagnosing schizophrenia in older age.
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spelling pubmed-39272532014-02-26 Onset of schizophrenia at 100 years of age Gupta, Sumit Kumar Jiloha, Ram Chander Yadav, Abhilasha Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Although generally regarded as a disease of young adults, schizophrenia does occur in older ages. Doubts have been raised about the validity of diagnosing schizophrenia in very old age. We have described herein a rare and unique case of a woman who had onset of “schizophrenia” as per ICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR criteria at the age of 100 years. We have discussed about the validity of diagnosing schizophrenia in older age. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3927253/ /pubmed/24574565 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.124723 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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