Screaming, shrieking and muttering: The noise-makers amongst dementia patients

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-258

  Nagaratnam, Nages ^a   Patel, Ilesh ^a   Whelan, Clair ^a  

^a Blacktown – Mt Druitt Health ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Dementia; Frontal subcortical circuitry; Noise making; Screaming

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOLUTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROANATOMY; NOISE POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SELF CARE; SINGING; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; DELUSIONS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOISE;

EID: 0037404753     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4943(02)00169-3     Document Type: Article

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