Relationship between denial of memory deficit and dementia severity in Alzheimer disease

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 88-94

  Sevush, Steven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEMENTIA; DENIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0033501147     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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