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PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING
Volume 249, Issue -, Pages 45-51Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.12.002
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Alzheimer's disease; The subtypes of psychotic symptoms; The gray matter volumes
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between brain regional gray matter volume and two subtypes of psychotic symptoms, namely paranoid and misidentification subtypes, in anti psychotic -na ve mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Forty AD patients with psychotic symptoms and 25 AD patients without psychotic symptoms were assessed for cognitive and functional impairment. Presence and subtype of psychotic symptoms were assessed by using the delusion and hallucination subscale of the Korean Neuropsychiatric Inventory (K-NPI). Structural MRI images were acquired on a 3 T scanner, and were analyzed using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) for automated analysis. The misidentification subtype is associated with more severe gray matter atrophy, and paranoid subtype is associated with less severe gray matter atrophy compared to non-psychosis group. These results suggest that the misidentification, the paranoid subtype and the non-psychosis group have a distinct neural correlation. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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