Psychological versus biological clinical interpretation: A patient with prion disease

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 528-537

  Solvason, H Brent ^a   Harris, Brent ^a   Zeifert, Penelope ^a   Flores, Benjamin H ^a   Hayward, Chris ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; BUSPIRONE; FLUOXETINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; EMOTION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; TREMOR;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONVERSION DISORDER; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRIONS;

EID: 0036221317     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.4.528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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