Systematic review and meta-analysis show that dementia with lewy bodies is a visual-perceptual and attentional-executive dementia

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 229-237

  Collerton, Daniel ^a   Burn, David ^b   McKeith, Ian ^b   O'Brien, John ^b  

^a Bensham Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dementia; Lewy bodies; Meta analysis, dementia; Systematic review, dementia

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIANCE; DATA BASE; DEMENTIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL TEST; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; STRATIFICATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141839761     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072807     Document Type: Article

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