Is it Alzheimer's disease or something else? 10 disorders that may feature impaired memory and cognition

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 47-53

  Barrett, Anna M ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; COGNITION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEPRESSION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NEUROSYPHILIS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; STROKE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 19944414634     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2005.05.1648     Document Type: Review

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