Treatment of Reversible or Arrestable Dementias

Evidence based Dementia Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 615-638

  Sachdev, Perminder ^a   Trollor, Julian ^a   Looi, Jeffrey C L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1002/9780470752340.ch37     Document Type: Chapter

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