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n. - A form of a certain mental illness characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy).

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  • Kraepelin later coined the term paraphrenia to denote milder delusional syndromes, distinct from dementia praecox, that developed in middle and late life dementia...
  • Late paraphrenia is extremely responsive to convulsive treatment.
  • Studies 484 suggest that this late-onset group has premorbid function, symptomatology, and course consistent with the concept of late paraphrenia.
  • Environmental and hereditary factors in the schizophrenia of old age “late paraphrenia”, and their bearing on the general problem of causation in schizophrenia.
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