Complex visual hallucination and mirror sign in posterior cortical atrophy

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-65

  Yoshida, T ^a   Yuki, N ^a   Nakagawa, M ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Hallucination; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EEG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR CORTICAL ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGNOSIA; AGRAPHIA; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33745084974     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2006.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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