Impaired insight in Alzheimer disease: Association with cognitive deficits, psychiatric symptoms, and behavioral disturbances

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 83-88

  Harwood, Dylan G ^a   Sultzer, David L ^a,b   Wheatley, Muriel V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0033993664     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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