Degenerative dementia of the frontal type. Clinical evidence from 9 cases

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-39

  Galante, Emanuela ^a   Muggia, Silvia ^b   Spinnler, Hans ^b,c   Zuffi, Marta ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Azienda Ospedaliera San Paolo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe degeneration; Frontal type dementia; Non Alzheimer dementia; Pick disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0032889515     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017094     Document Type: Article

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