Aggressive and impulsive behaviors in Frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Grochmal Bach, Bozena ^a   Bidzan, Leszek ^b   Pachalska, Maria ^c   Bidzan, Mariola ^c   Łukaszewska, Beata ^c   Pufal, Anna ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Behavioral changes; Differential diagnosis of dementia; Dopaminergic system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NURSING HOME;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 66649110799     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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