Assessing and predicting functional impairment in alzheimer's disease: The emerging role of frontal system dysfunction

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-24

  Boyle, Patricia A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HOSPITALIZATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 2342612783     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-004-0033-9     Document Type: Review

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