Electroencephalography as a diagnostic instrument in Alzheimer's disease: Reviews and perspectives

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages 237-246

  Hegerl, Ulrich ^a   Möller, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PSEUDODEMENTIA;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP, REM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031470950     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610297004948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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