'Impaired judgement' a useful symptom of dementia?

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 779-785

  Head, L ^a,c   Berrios, G E ^a,b  

^a Senior Registrar in Psychiatry   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Judgement; Thinking

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING;

EID: 0029759343     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199609)11:9<779::AID-GPS388>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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