Frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of neuropsychiatric features

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1205-1217

  Gregory, Carol A ^a  

^a FULBOURN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MANIA; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; OBSESSION; RATING SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032862795     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291799008934     Document Type: Article

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