New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Psychiatric features

Lancet

Volumn 350, Issue 9082, 1997, Pages 908-910

  Zeidler, M ^a   Johnstone, E C ^a   Bamber, R W K ^a   Dickens, C M ^a   Fisher, C J ^a   Francis, A F ^a   Goldbeck, R ^a   Higgo, R ^a   Johnson Sabine, E C ^a   Lodge, G J ^a   McGarry, P ^a   Mitchell, S ^a   Tarlo, L ^a   Turner, M ^a   Ryley, P ^a   Will, R G ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 0031588170     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)03148-6     Document Type: Note

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