Parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 12, 2005, Pages

  Steele, John C ^a  

^a Micronesian Health Study II ^*  (Guam)

Author keywords

ALS; Atypical parkinsonism; CBD; Cycad; Flying fox; Guadeloupe French West Indies; Guam; Kii peninsula of Japan; Marianas dementia; Movement disorders; Neurotoxicology; Parkinsonism dementia complex; PSP; Tauopathy

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATALITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GUAM; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; ONSET AGE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAUOPATHY;

AGE OF ONSET; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; GUAM; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PEDIGREE; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE;

EID: 26444560660     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20547     Document Type: Article

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