Presbyophrenia: a possible subtype of dementia.
Presbyophrenia is characterized by memory impairment, disorientation, confabulation, hypomanic features, and a preserved social facade. These occur in the absence of prior history of alcoholism or affective illness. We present three cases with presbyophrenia and suggest that the syndrome is a recognizable subtype of dementia, possibly related to disruption of aminergic pathways in frontal and subcortical structures.
Zervas
I M
IM
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Long Island 11794-8101.
Fliesser
J M
JM
Woznicki
M
M
Fricchione
G L
GL
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