Breaking the diagnosis of dementia

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 124-128

  Whitehouse, Peter ^a   Frisoni, Giovanni B ^b   Post, Stephen ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DONEPEZIL;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 1642554761     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(03)00666-5     Document Type: Note

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