A case of REM sleep behavior disorder with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease: Postmortem brain stem histochemical analyses

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 422-425

  Schenck, Carlos H ^a,c   Garcia Rill, Edgar ^b   Skinner, Robert D ^b   Anderson, Michael L ^a   Mahowald, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain stem; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Locus coeruleus; Pedunculopontine nucleus; REM sleep behavior disorder

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DREAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030245713     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(96)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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