Behavioral syndromes in Alzheimer's disease: Description and correlates

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 130-138

  Frisoni, Giovanni B ^a   Rozzini, Luca ^a   Gozzetti, Alessandra ^b   Binetti, Giuliano ^a   Zanetti, Orazio ^a   Bianchetti, Angelo ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^b   Cummings, Jeffrey L ^c  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b GERIATRIC RESEARCH GROUP   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Behavior; Behavioral symptoms; Factor analysis; Heterogeneity; Neuropsychiatric inventory; Non cognitive symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033056242     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017113     Document Type: Article

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