Personality Changes in Alzheimer's Disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 486-491

  Chatterjee, Anjan ^a   Strauss, Milton E ^a   Smyth, Kathleen A ^a   Whitehouse, Peter J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENILE PLAQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026777452     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1992.00530290070014     Document Type: Article

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