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Article: Onset of hallucinations varies between dementia types.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
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- June 1, 2005
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MIAMI BEACH -- Onset time of visual hallucinations can help clinicians distinguish between dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) or Alzheimer's disease (AD) can experience visual hallucinations, visual misperceptions, elementary auditory hallucinations, and delusions. However, little is known about how these features differ between groups in incidence or character, said Tanis J. Ferman, Ph.D.
"Is there a way to distinguish between psychoses in these two groups clinically?" asked Dr. Ferman, a psychologist ...