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Franková V, Horská I, Kastner J. Intracranial tumors in geriatric psychiatry Objective: Psychiatric symptoms may be the first and dominating clinical manifestation of intracranial tumors in older age. The aim of our study was to investigate the typical psychiatric symptoms of intracranial tumors in psychogeriatric patients which should definitely indicate neuroimaging. Material and method: We performed retrospective analysis of medical records of patients admitted to the psychogeriatric department of Psychiatric hospital in Dobrany due to symptoms of intracranial tumors in 2012-2014. Case reports are presented. Results: In a three-years period 1520 patients were admitted, 6 of them (0,4 %) (4 women, 2 men) due to symptoms of intracranial tumors. There were: psychiatric and behavioral disturbances and delirium after neurosurgery, in inoperable tumors and in newly diagnosed tumors. These common symptoms are found as first manifestation of intracranial tumors in our patients: fluctuation of symptoms, rapidly progressive cognitive decline, delirium, depression, anxiety, atypical psychotic symptoms, weight changes, sleep disturbances, vertigo and gate disturbances. Conclusion: Neuroimaging (CT and/or MRI scan) is an important part of differential diagnosis of dementia, especially atypical type with rapid progression. Neuroimaging should be also considered in psychogeriatric patients with new-onset or atypical psychosis and affective disorders, personality and behavior changes and anorexia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives. The aim of this study is to examine psychometric properties (reliability, intercorrelations, distribution of scores, analyze the items, influence of demographic variables) and present the percentile norms of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) and its short form GAI-SF, which focus on detecting anxiety in older persons. Sample and setting. 485 mentally healthy persons older than 60 years of age from 12 regions of the Czech Republic have passed the GAI, which, using 20 items with Yes and No answers, examines anxiety in older individuals. The influence of age, education and sex was examined. Statistical analyses. Data were analyzed with Spearman's and point-biserial correlation coefficients, tetrachoric correlations, Mann-Whitney U test and McDonald's omega. Results. Statistical analysis revealed the effect of sex on the GAI and GAI-SF results, which is in line with the theory that women are more anxious. The influence of education and age was not significant. The study provides normative GAI and GAI-SF data on a large sample of older persons from the Czech population adjusted by sex. Study limitations. The main limits of the study are non-administering of both versions but only the full version of GAI from which GAI-SF results were extracted, and examination of nonclinical sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]