Apathy is a prominent neuropsychiatric feature of radiological white-matter changes in patients with dementia

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 588-595

  Jonsson, M ^a   Edman, A ^a   Lind, K ^a   Rolstad, S ^a   Sjogren M ^a   Wallin, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apathy; Cognitive impairment; CT; Dementia; MRI; Neuropsychiatric symptoms; Vascular factors; White matter changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; APATHY; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BABINSKI REFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HALLUCINATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKINESIA; HYPOTENSION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAW OPENING REFLEX; LABORATORY TEST; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MIXED DEPRESSION AND DEMENTIA; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANOIA; RESTLESSNESS; RIGIDITY; STROKE; THOUGHT DISORDER; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREMOR; WAKEFULNESS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; APATHY; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952414705     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.2379     Document Type: Article

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