Delusions and dementia: clinical and CT correlates

Abstract

We found that focal lesions in the frontal areas were the only variable that appeared to be significantly and independently associated with delusional disorders.

Belief and awareness: reflections on a case of persistent anosognosia

“…Right sided frontoparietal brain damage has also been more commonly aligned with a range of neuropsychiatric symptoms including confabulation, delusions based on autobiographical memory falsifications, delusional misidentification syndromes and persecutory states (e.g. Binetti et al, 1995;Conway & Tacchi, 1996;Ellis, 1994;Shanks & Venneri, 2002;Venneri et al, 2000).…”

Delusions and hallucinations in Alzheimer's disease: prevalence and clinical correlates

“…The presence of psychosis has been associated with many factors: age (Swearer et al, 1988;Gilley et al, 1991a;Forstl et al, 1993;Binetti et al, 1995;Kortla et al, 1995b), sex (Reisberg et al, 1987;Devanand et al, 1992), race (Deutsch et al, 1991), education (Devanand et al, 1992), duration of illness (Migliorelli et al, 1995) and cognitive impairment (Cummings et al, 1987;Patterson et al, 1990;Jeste et al, 1992;Rubin et al, 1993;Binetti et al, 1993;Doody et al, 1995). However, these associations are inconsistent across studies.…”

Psychosis in Alzheimer's Disease: Prevalence, Clinical Characteristics, Symptom Co-Morbidity, and Aetiology

“…Significant relationships are noted for delusions and the severity of cognitive impairment (Aalten, De Vugt, Jaspers, Jolles, & Verhey, 2005;Baiyewu et al, 2003;Doody, Massman, Mahurin, & Law, 1995;Paulsen, Ready et al, 2000), functional impairment (Binetti et al, 1995;Drevets & Rubin, 1989;Galasko, Gould, Abramson, & Salmon, 2000), severity of disease (Piccininni, Di Carlo, Baldereschi, Zaccara, & Inzitari, 2005;Trabucchi & Bianchetti, 1996), age (Bassiony et al, 2000), and female gender (Leroi, Voulgari, Breitner, & Lyketsos, 2003).…”