Neuropathological substrate of incident dementia in older patients with schizophrenia: A clinicopathological study.
Shusei ArafukaHiroshige FujishiroYouta ToriiHirotaka SekiguchiChikako HabuchiAyako MiwaMari YoshidaShuji IritaniYasushi IwasakiMasashi IkedaNorio OzakiPublished in: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences (2023)
Two types of older schizophrenia patient present dementia: patients with co-existing neurodegenerative disease and patients who do not meet pathological criteria based on the current classification. To understand the neurobiological aspects of incident dementia in older patients with schizophrenia, further clinicopathological studies are needed that do not simply analyze incident dementia as a comorbidity of conventional dementia-related neuropathologies. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.