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In his classic monographs on The significance of affective symptoms in old age (1962) and Persistent persecutory states of the elderly (1966) Felix Post found that 38% of elderly depressives occasionally exhibited paranoid symptoms, and that 58% of late paraphrenics had at some time or other depressive admixtures. In a subsequent (1971), far less frequently cited paper (Post 1971) he addressed the problem of schizoaffective symptomatology in late life.
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Pitt, B. (1990). Schizoaffective Disorders in the Elderly. In: Marneros, A., Tsuang, M.T. (eds) Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75353-4_9
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