Primary alcoholic dementia and alcohol-related dementia

Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 114-118

  Moriyama, Yasushi ^a   Mimura, Masaru ^b   Kato, Motoichiro ^c   Kashima, Haruo ^c  

^a Komagino Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcoholic dementia; Amnesia; Neuropathology; Neuropsychology; Wernicke Korsakoff's syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY ALCOHOLIC DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 33748593949     PISSN: 13463500     EISSN: 14798301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2006.00168.x     Document Type: Review

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