Magnetic resonance imaging in pre-senile dementia of the Alzheimer-type, multi-infarct dementia and Korsakoff's syndrome

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 319-329

  Kean, D M ^a   Douglas, R H B ^a   Engleman, H M ^a   Clair, D St ^a   Blackburn, I M ^a   Christie, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023907528     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291700007868     Document Type: Article

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