Guidelines for the diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 187-194

  Sorbi, Sandro ^a   Alberoni, Margherita ^b   Alfieri, Pasquale ^b   Amici, Serena ^b   Antana, Daniele ^b   Appollonio, Ildebrando ^b   Avanzi, Stefano ^b   Bartoli, Antonella ^b   Bergamasco, Bruno ^b   Bracco, Laura ^b   Bruni, Amalia ^b   Bugiani, Orso ^b   Caffarra, Paolo ^b   Caltagirone, Carlo ^b   Carolei, Antonio ^b   Rosa, Anna ^b   Ciannella, Luciana ^b   Citterio, Antonietta ^b   Daniele, Antonio ^b   D'Achille, Graziella ^b   Del Curatolo, Giuseppe ^b   Dell'Agnello, Grazia ^b   Durante, Daniele ^b   Farina, Elisabetta ^b   Ferrero, Patrizia ^b   Forleo, Paolo ^b   Gainotti, Guido ^b   Gabriele, Paolo ^b   Galante, Emanuela ^b   Gallai, Virgilio ^b   Gallassi, Roberto ^b   Gasparini, Maddalena ^b   Ghetti, Bernardino ^b   Giaccone, Giorgio ^b   Girotti, Floriano ^b   Grimaldi, Luigi ^b   Grioli, Serenella ^b   Guarnieri, Bianca Maria ^b   Grottoli, Stefano ^b   Iemolo, Francesco ^b   Latorraca, Stefania ^b   Le Pira, Francesco ^b   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^b   Lorusso, Sebastiano ^b   Mariani, Claudio ^b   Marcon, Gabriella ^b   Mascia, Vincenzo ^b   Mearelli, Simonetta ^b   Morante, Maria ^b   Morbin, Michela ^b   Musicco, Massimo ^b   Nardelli, Ettore ^b   Nichelli, Paolo ^b   Padovani, Alessandro ^b   Paganini, Marco ^b   Pantieri, Roberta ^b   Parisen, Pietro ^b   Parnetti, Lucilla ^b   Passerella, Bruno ^b   Pettenati, Carla ^b   Piacentini, Silvia ^b   Piccoli, Federico ^b   Piccolini, Carlo ^b   Pizzolato, Gilberto ^b   Provinciali, Leandro ^b   Pugliese, Nicola ^b   Redi, Francesco ^b   Ruggieri, Rosa Maria ^b   Ruggiero, Umberto ^b   Saetta, Marco ^b   Schoenuber, Rudolf ^b   Silveri, Maria Caterina ^b   Sorrentino, Giuseppe ^b   Sucapane, Patrizia ^b   Stracciari, Andrea ^b   Tabaton, Massimo ^b   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^b   Toso, Vito ^b   Valluzzi, Francesco ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0034252487     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100720070075     Document Type: Article

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