Behavioural and neuropsychological correlates of frontal lobe features in dementia

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1173-1182

  Engelborghs, Sebastiaan ^a,b   Maertens, Karen ^b   Mariën, Peter ^a,c   Vloeberghs, Ellen ^b   Somers, Nore ^a   Nagels, Guy ^b,d   De Deyn, Peter P ^a,b  

^a MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^d National Multiple Sclerosis Center   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSIVENESS; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIXED DEPRESSION AND DEMENTIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33746117950     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329170600777X     Document Type: Article

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