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late-onset schizophrenia

a psychotic state that starts after middle age (typically after age 45). It is believed that those with late-onset schizophrenia experience more positive symptoms (particularly persecutory delusions and visual, tactile, and auditory hallucinations) and fewer negative symptoms than do those with early-onset schizophrenia.

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May 9th 2024

NH

NH

abbreviation for null hypothesis.