Diagnosing alzheimer’s disease in community-dwelling elderly: A comparison of EEG and MRI

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 198-202

  Strijers, R L M ^a   Scheltens, P ^a   Jonkman, E J ^a   De Rijke, W ^a   Hooijer, C ^a   Jonker, C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; MRI Diagnosis; Topographical EEG

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030942120     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106631     Document Type: Article

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