Clinical characteristics of dementia associated with argyrophilic grain disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-234

  Steuerwald, Gertrud M ^a   Baumann, Thomas P ^a   Taylor, Kirsten I ^a   Mittag, Michael ^a   Adams, Heiner ^b   Tolnay, Markus ^b   Monsch, Andreas U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Argyrophilic grain disease; Autopsy confirmed; Dementia; Retrospective Dementia Inventory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARGYROPHILIC GRAIN DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELATIVE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAUOPATHY;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 34548176786     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107085     Document Type: Article

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