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Psychosis associated with demonstrable brain disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Anthony Feinstein  and
Maria A. Ron
Anthony Feinstein*
Affiliation:
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London
Maria A. Ron
Affiliation:
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Anthony Feinstein, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG.
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Synopsis

Sixty-five psychotic patients with unequivocal evidence of brain pathology and a variety of neurological disorders were assessed with respect to phenomenology and outcome. No relationship was found between site of brain pathology and type of psychotic disorder. A majority of patients had a syndrome indistinguishable from schizophrenia without coarse brain involvement and shared similar variables predicting outcome of psychosis, thus raising important issues concerning their nosological status.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , November 1990 , pp. 793 - 803
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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