Motor neuron disease presenting with slow saccades and dementia

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 159-162

  Vaphiades, Michael S ^a   Husain, Muhammad ^b   Juhasz, Katalin ^b   Schmidley, J W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Dementia; Slow saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TONGUE; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SACCADES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0036762459     PISSN: 14660822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/146608202760834175     Document Type: Article

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