Kraepelin later coined the term paraphrenia to denote milder delusional syndromes, distinct from dementia praecox, that developed in middle and late life dementia praecox having an early onset with little subsequent deterioration. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Late paraphrenia is extremely responsive to convulsive treatment. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Studies 484 suggest that this late-onset group has premorbid function, symptomatology, and course consistent with the concept of late paraphrenia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Environmental and hereditary factors in the schizophrenia of old age “late paraphrenia”, and their bearing on the general problem of causation in schizophrenia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
An article about Edgar Allan Poe by Maurice Levy begins with the statement that only the daring write about Poe "without evoking his dipsomania, opiomania, cyclothymia, paraphrenia, and sado-necrophilia". From Wordnik.com. [Futurismic] Reference
Roth’s (851) late paraphrenia and the paranoid reactive psychoses of Scandinavian psychiatry (termed paranoid states in the United States) (644) are variations of Kraepelin’s paraphrenia concept. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Late paraphrenia. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
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