Relationship between Delusion of Theft and Cognitive Functions in Patients with Mild Alzheimer’s Disease

• 발행기관: 대한신경정신의학회
• 저자명: HaeRan Na DongWoo Kang YoungSup Woo WonMyong Bahk ChangUk Lee HyunKook Lim
• 간행물 정보: 『Psychiatry Investigation』제15권 제4호, 413~416쪽, 전체 4쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 정신과학
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• 발행일자: 2018.04.30

영문 초록

Although delusion of theft (DT) is the most frequent type of delusion in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), its relationship to cognitive functions remains unclear. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the relationship between DT and cognitive functions in mild AD. Two hundred eighty-nine mild AD patients were enrolled in this study. These subjects were classified into three groups: patients with no delusions (ND, n=82), patients with paranoid delusions (PD, n=114) and patients with DT (n=93). Cognitive functions and their associations with the degree of delusion were compared among the three groups. The results showed that verbal Fluency scores were significantly lower in the PD group than in the DT and ND groups. Word List Recall scores were significantly lower in the DT group than in the PD and ND groups. Interestingly, delusion severity measured with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory delusion subscale correlated negatively with the Word List Recall scores in the DT group. In this study, we demonstrated that episodic memory functions in mild AD patients were associated with DT, but not with PD. Further studies might be needed to clarify the pathophysiology of delusions associated with AD.

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Delusion of theft Cognitive function Alzheimer’s disease