Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 138-142

  Nahm, Michael ^a   Greyson, Bruce ^a   Kelly, Emily Williams ^a   Haraldsson, Erlendur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Death; Dementia; End of life care; Memory; Terminal symptom remission

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MANIA; MELANCHOLIA; MEMORY; MENINGITIS; MOOD DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINAL LUCIDITY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TERMINALLY ILL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955205502     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2011.06.031     Document Type: Article

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