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Non-Cognitive Symptoms and the Diagnosis of Dementia

Historical and Clinical Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

G. E. Berrios
G. E. Berrios*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
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Addenbrooke's Hospital (Level 4), Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
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The current characterisation of dementia as a state of global cognitive failure (DSM-III-R, 1987) cannot differentiate it reliably, in cross-sectional diagnosis, from other states of compromised cognition. This is likely to contribute to both the over- and under-diagnosis of dementia in clinical practice (Marsden & Harrison, 1972; Fleminger, 1975; Ron et al, 1979; Smith & Kiloh, 1981; Garcia et al, 1984; Klein et al, 1985). However, diagnostic discrimination between true dementia and its behavioural phenocopies (e.g. depressive pseudo-dementia, quiet delirium, etc.) can be improved in a number of ways. One such is the longitudinal assessment of symptom-clusters (e.g. those related to memory, personality, and cortical syndromes); another is the inclusion of new symptoms into the definition of dementia. The first of these strategies has been given more attention than the second.

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I. Nosological Aspects
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue S4: Psychiatric Diagnosis: Nosological, Biological and Psychological Aspects , May 1989 , pp. 11 - 16
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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