Transient epileptic amnesia in dementia: A treatable unrecognized cause of episodic amnestic wandering

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 231-233

  Rabinowicz, Adrián L ^a,c   Starkstein, Sergio E ^a   Leiguarda, Ramón C ^a   Coleman, Anton E ^b  

^a FLENI   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Anticonvulsants; Dementia; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANTICONVULSANTS; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033672464     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002093-200010000-00008     Document Type: Article

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