"Frontal variant Alzheimer's disease": A reappraisal

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 705-708

  Larner, Andrew J ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACE; Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Diagnosis; Frontal variant; Frontotemporal dementia

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; GALANTAMINE; PRESENILIN 1;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMOTIONALITY; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; PRESENILIN-1; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33748790928     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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