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Hallucinations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Peter J. Whitehouse ,
Marian B. Patterson ,
Milton E. Strauss ,
David S. Geldmacher ,
James L. Mack ,
Grover C. Gilmore  and
Elisabeth Koss
Peter J. Whitehouse
Affiliation:
Alzheimer Center University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Marian B. Patterson
Affiliation:
Alzheimer Center University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Milton E. Strauss
Affiliation:
Alzheimer Center University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
David S. Geldmacher
Affiliation:
Alzheimer Center University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
James L. Mack
Affiliation:
Alzheimer Center University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Grover C. Gilmore
Affiliation:
Alzheimer Center University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Elisabeth Koss
Affiliation:
Alzheimer Center University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
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Studies conducted at our Alzheimer Center in Cleveland, Ohio, along with those of other investigators, have documented that visual hallucinations occur with sufficient frequency in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias to warrant further investigation of their meaning and implications. The largest data set in which frequency of hallucinations among persons with Alzheimer's disease has been examined comes from a collaboration among the National Institute of Aging Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD), and the Case Western Reserve University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC). As a part of this collaboration, we examined data from 556 patients with Alzheimer's disease treated at medical centers across the United States who had been rated using the CERAD Behavior Rating Scale for Dementia (BRSD). The BRSD is a comprehensive, informant-based tool that includes several questions concerning the frequency with which hallucinations and misperceptions were experienced during the month before the interview.

Type
Clinical Perspectives: What Should We Be Studying?
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 387 - 392
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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