The case of a 48 year-old woman with bizarre and complex delusions

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-179

  Loy, Clement T ^a   Kril, Jillian J ^b   Trollor, Julian N ^c   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a   Kwok, John B J ^a   Vucic, Steve ^a   Halliday, Glenda M ^a   Hodges, John R ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMISULPRIDE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; RISPERIDONE; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 9P; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISABILITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELUSIONS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 77949377237     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2010.3     Document Type: Article

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