Psychological Test Performance in Patients Over Sixty. II. Paraphrenia, Arteriosclerotic Psychosis and Acute Confusion

Abstract

The previous paper of this series (Roth and Hopkins, 1953) described test performance in senile and affective psychosis. The same tests have been administered to patients in three other diagnostic groups: paraphrenia, arteriosclerotic psychosis, and acute confusional states. These five clinical categories account for the majority of mental hospital admissions in patients over the age of 60.

Validity Study of the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire for the Elderly*

“…Pfeiffer's short, portable mental status questionnaire (SPMSQ) was developed in 1975 (10). Although similar to previous efforts (11–14), the SPMSQ (Table 1) has several advantages over the earlier tests.…”

The neuropsychology and neurobiology of late-onset schizophrenia and very-late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: A critical review

“…Furthermore, it may be informative for clinical practice to learn whether there are specific cognitive profiles that predict a conversion to dementia or a relative stability in cognitive functioning. Research on the characterization of cognitive function in neurodegenerative conditions compared to mixed groups of LOS and VLOSLP has mainly focused on AD [46][47][48][49] and (the behavioral variant of) FTD [22]. Also, vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) with concomitant psychosis was studied [48].…”

“…Research on the characterization of cognitive function in neurodegenerative conditions compared to mixed groups of LOS and VLOSLP has mainly focused on AD [46][47][48][49] and (the behavioral variant of) FTD [22]. Also, vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) with concomitant psychosis was studied [48]. intelligence, however, appeared within the average range for both clinical and control groups [23,28,31,35].…”

KEY PAPERS IN GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY. SERIES EDITOR: ALISTAIR BURNS The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects. G. Blessed, B. Tomlinson and M. Roth,British Journal of Psychiatry (1968)114, 797-811.

“…The study was conceived as a logical successor to Roth's Graylingwell investigations (Roth and Morrissey, 1952;Roth and Hopkins, 1953;Hopkins and Roth, 1953;and Roth, 1955). If five distinct clinical categories of mental illness existed in old age then it should be possible to demonstrate differences in brain neuropathology between them: notably between the functional and organic cases, and within the latter category, between acute and chronic disorders.…”