Frontal lobe degeneration and alzheimers disease: A controlled study on clinical findings, volumetric brain changes and quantitative electroencephalography data

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-34

  Förstl, Hans ^a   Besthorn, Christoph ^a   Hentschel, Frank ^a   Geiger Kabisch, Claudia ^a   Sattel, Heribert ^a   Schreiter Gasser, Ursula ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Computed tomography; Electroencephalography; Frontal lobe degeneration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THETA RHYTHM; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030050561     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106849     Document Type: Article

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