Acute psychosis: A neuropsychiatric dilemma

The acute onset of psychotic symptoms in elderly can be the presenting clinical feature for various Central Nervous System as well as other systemic illnesses. The diagnosis and treatment of such presentation require a cautious medical work up and high level of suspicion even if the patient is not s...

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Autores principales: Saldanha, Daniel, Menon, Preethi, Chaudari, Bhushan, Bhattacharya, L., Guliani, Sameer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4085811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25013320
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.132933
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author Saldanha, Daniel
Menon, Preethi
Chaudari, Bhushan
Bhattacharya, L.
Guliani, Sameer
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spelling pubmed-40858112014-07-10 Acute psychosis: A neuropsychiatric dilemma Saldanha, Daniel Menon, Preethi Chaudari, Bhushan Bhattacharya, L. Guliani, Sameer Ind Psychiatry J Case Report The acute onset of psychotic symptoms in elderly can be the presenting clinical feature for various Central Nervous System as well as other systemic illnesses. The diagnosis and treatment of such presentation require a cautious medical work up and high level of suspicion even if the patient is not showing any cardinal symptoms for organic pathology. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC4085811/ /pubmed/25013320 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.132933 Text en Copyright: © Industrial Psychiatry Journal 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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Acute psychosis: A neuropsychiatric dilemma
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