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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2011

Neurobiology of delusions in Alzheimer's disease.

Zahinoor Ismail, Minh-Quan Nguyen, Corinne E Fischer, Tom A Schweizer, Benoit H Mulsant, David Mamo

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Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Understanding the Delusion of Theft.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2018
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  11. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Mild Cognitive Impairment.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2017
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  17. Behavioral symptoms related to cognitive impairment.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Zahinoor IsmailCentre for Addiction and Mental Health, Geriatric Mental Health Program, University of Toronto, 1001 Queen Street W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. zahinoor@gmail.com
Minh-Quan Nguyen
Corinne E Fischer
Tom A Schweizer
Benoit H Mulsant
David Mamo

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with cognitive and functional impairment as well as neuropsychiatric sequelae, including psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. Strong evidence supports the need to study delusions separate from hallucinations. Integrating the epidemiology, clinical correlates, and neuropathological and genetic literature for delusions in AD allows us to speculate on etiology and mechanisms. Plaque and tangle deposition in individuals with susceptible alleles of serotonergic, muscarinic, nicotinic, or Apoε4 genes appears to result in disruption of cortical circuitry, culminating in delusions. While delusions in AD correspond to a phenotype distinct from AD without delusions, subtypes of delusions may also define further distinct clinical entities. Persecutory delusions may occur earlier in the illness and have a more significant genetic component than misidentification delusions, which are associated with increased cognitive impairment and advanced dementia. Clearly distinguishing between these two syndromes is essential to making progress in the area of delusions in AD.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBrainCognition DisordersDelusionsHumans

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