A Family With Histologically Confirmed Alzheimer's Disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 203-208

  Nee, Linda E ^a   Polinsky, Ronald J ^a   Eldridge, Roswell ^c   Weingartner, Herbert ^b   Smallberg, Sheila ^b   Ebert, Michael ^a  

^a Laboratory of Clinical Science   (United States)

^b Lab of Psychol and Psychopathology   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIGREE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBRAL VENTRICULOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PEDIGREE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0020692622     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1983.04050040033004     Document Type: Article

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