Confused and disturbed behavior in the elderly following silent frontal lobe infarction

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 333-339

  Nagaratnam, Nages ^a   Bou Haidar, Pascal ^a   Leung, Harry ^a  

^a BLACKTOWN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confusional state; Disturbed behavior; Frontal lobe; Frontal subcortical circuitry; Silent cerebral infarction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; STROKE; SYMPTOM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0346343633     PISSN: 15333175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153331750301800608     Document Type: Article

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