Neuropsychiatric and Neuropsychological Correlates of Delusions in Alzheimer's Disease

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 505-513

  Starkstein, S E ^b   Petracca, G ^a   Teson, A ^a   Sabe, L ^a   Leiguarda, R ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Invcstigacioncs Neurologicas Raul Carrea ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAPGRAS SYNDROME; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIA; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; ONSET AGE; PARANOIA; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARANOID DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029036746     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291700033420     Document Type: Article

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