Acute versus chronic pain experience in Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-16

  Scherder, Erik J A ^a   Bouma, Anke ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Pain; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0033981524     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017207     Document Type: Article

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