Frontotemporal dementia: Behavioral symptoms and caregiver distress

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 299-306

  Mourik, J C ^a   Rosso, S M ^a   Niermeijer, M F ^b   Duivenvoorden, H J ^a   Van Swieten, J C ^a   Tibben, A ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral symptoms; Caregiver distress; Clustering; Frontotemporal dementia; Multidimensional scaling; Neuropsychiatric inventory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EUPHORIA; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HALLUCINATION; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 5644273816     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080123     Document Type: Article

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