TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuropathological substrate of incident dementia in older patients with schizophrenia
T2 - A clinicopathological study
AU - Arafuka, Shusei
AU - Fujishiro, Hiroshige
AU - Torii, Youta
AU - Sekiguchi, Hirotaka
AU - Habuchi, Chikako
AU - Miwa, Ayako
AU - Yoshida, Mari
AU - Iritani, Shuji
AU - Iwasaki, Yasushi
AU - Ikeda, Masashi
AU - Ozaki, Norio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences © 2023 Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Aim: Clinical studies reported that patients with schizophrenia are at a higher risk of developing dementia than people without schizophrenia. However, early neuropathological studies have shown that the incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in schizophrenia patients does not differ from that in controls. These inconsistent results may be attributable to the inclusion of non-AD dementia, but there have been few clinicopathological studies in older patients with schizophrenia based on the current neuropathological classification. This study aimed to investigate the neuropathological basis of incident dementia in older patients with schizophrenia. Methods: We systematically examined 32 brains of old patients with schizophrenia using standardized pathological methods. The severity of dementia-related neuropathologies was analyzed using standardized semiquantitative assessments. After excluding patients who fulfilled the neuropathological criteria, clinicopathological variables were compared between patients with and without incident dementia to identify potential differences. Results: Seven patients fulfilled the pathological criteria for AD (n = 3), argyrophilic grain disease (AGD) (n = 2), dementia with Lewy bodies (n = 1), and AGD/progressive supranuclear palsy (n = 1). Among 25 patients for whom a neuropathological diagnosis was not obtained, 10 had dementia, but the clinicopathological findings did not differ from the remaining 15 patients without dementia. Conclusion: 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.
AB - Aim: Clinical studies reported that patients with schizophrenia are at a higher risk of developing dementia than people without schizophrenia. However, early neuropathological studies have shown that the incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in schizophrenia patients does not differ from that in controls. These inconsistent results may be attributable to the inclusion of non-AD dementia, but there have been few clinicopathological studies in older patients with schizophrenia based on the current neuropathological classification. This study aimed to investigate the neuropathological basis of incident dementia in older patients with schizophrenia. Methods: We systematically examined 32 brains of old patients with schizophrenia using standardized pathological methods. The severity of dementia-related neuropathologies was analyzed using standardized semiquantitative assessments. After excluding patients who fulfilled the neuropathological criteria, clinicopathological variables were compared between patients with and without incident dementia to identify potential differences. Results: Seven patients fulfilled the pathological criteria for AD (n = 3), argyrophilic grain disease (AGD) (n = 2), dementia with Lewy bodies (n = 1), and AGD/progressive supranuclear palsy (n = 1). Among 25 patients for whom a neuropathological diagnosis was not obtained, 10 had dementia, but the clinicopathological findings did not differ from the remaining 15 patients without dementia. Conclusion: 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.
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U2 - 10.1111/pcn.13597
DO - 10.1111/pcn.13597
M3 - Article
C2 - 37706608
AN - SCOPUS:85173940792
SN - 1323-1316
VL - 78
SP - 29
EP - 40
JO - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
JF - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
IS - 1
ER -