Cognitive and behavioral differentiation of frontal lobe degeneration of the non-Alzheimer type and Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 205-213

  Lindau, Maria ^a,b   Almkvist, Ove ^a   Johansson, Sven Erik ^c   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Statistics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Behavior; Cognition; Diagnosis; Frontal lobe degeneration; Predictive value of tests; Psychological tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOLITION;

EID: 0031866125     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017048     Document Type: Article

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