The clinical picture of frontotemporal dementia: Diagnosis and follow-up

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 10-14

  Pasquier, Florence ^a   Lebert, Florence ^a   Lavenu, Isabelle ^a   Guillaume, Bénédicte ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Frontotemporal dementia; Imaging; Longitudinal study; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; LANGUAGE; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MUTISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032804435     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000051206     Document Type: Article

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