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[Acute psychoses of advanced age]. 1977

E Sternberg

The group of acute psychoses in later life comprises: 1. acute psychotic pictures at the commencement or during the course of organic breakdown; 2. strictly speaking exogenous (symptomatic) psychoses 3. acute psychotic conditions during the processes in particular of endogenous psychoses; and 4. psychoreactive and situationally conditioned psychoses. In all these nosologically heterogeneous forms certain characteristics regarding their appearance and course can be perceived which are related to age a rudimentary type of syndromic pictures, their particular "senile" colouration, a preponderance of short and recurrent psychotic periods, a not infrequent change to dementia, and the occurrence of illnesses typical of old people (amnestic states of disorientation, complete optical illusions, etc.). The outlook for acute psychoses in later life is gloomy (almost 50% fatality); the recognition of basic illnesses causes particular difficulties. Some special clinical forms are being more intensively analysed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011618	Psychotic Disorders	Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)	Psychoses,Psychosis, Brief Reactive,Schizoaffective Disorder,Schizophreniform Disorders,Psychosis,Brief Reactive Psychoses,Brief Reactive Psychosis,Disorder, Psychotic,Disorder, Schizoaffective,Disorder, Schizophreniform,Disorders, Psychotic,Disorders, Schizoaffective,Disorders, Schizophreniform,Psychoses, Brief Reactive,Psychotic Disorder,Reactive Psychoses, Brief,Reactive Psychosis, Brief,Schizoaffective Disorders,Schizophreniform Disorder
D003704	Dementia	An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.	Senile Paranoid Dementia,Amentia,Familial Dementia,Amentias,Dementia, Familial,Dementias,Dementias, Familial,Dementias, Senile Paranoid,Familial Dementias,Paranoid Dementia, Senile,Paranoid Dementias, Senile,Senile Paranoid Dementias
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000208	Acute Disease	Disease having a short and relatively severe course.	Acute Diseases,Disease, Acute,Diseases, Acute
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly