Incident Psychosis in Subjects With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer's Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the incidence of psychotic symptoms in Alzheimer's disease.

Methods

The study consists of 776 elderly subjects presenting to the Alzheimer Disease Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) between May 9, 2000, and August 19, 2014. All participants were diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroup criteria) or possible or probable Alzheimer's disease (National Institute of Neurologic and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association criteria) and were without psychosis at entry. Psychotic symptoms were evaluated using the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease Behavioral Rating Scale every 6 mo

SUBMITTER: Weamer EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5372698 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature