Other causes of dementia

Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-64

  Dennis, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alcohol dementia; B12 and folate deficiency; corticobasal degeneration; drug induced dementia; Huntington's disease; hyperparathyroidism; hypothyroidism; multiple system atrophy; non Alzheimer's dementias; normal pressure hydrocephalus; old age psychiatry; Parkinson's disease; progressive supranuclear palsy; reversible or treatable dementias; subcortical dementia; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645169731     PISSN: 14761793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1383/psyt.4.1.62.58311     Document Type: Article

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