Psychosis, C9ORF72 and dementia with Lewy bodies

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1031-1032

  Snowden, Julie S ^a,b   Rollinson, Sarah ^b   Lafon, Chloe ^a,b   Harris, Jennifer ^a,b   Thompson, Jennifer ^a,b   Richardson, Anna M ^a,b   Jones, Matthew ^a,b   Gerhard, Alexander ^a,b   Neary, David ^a,b   Mann, David M A ^b   Pickering Brown, Stuart ^b  

^a SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; C9ORF72 GENE; CAPGRAS SYNDROME; CONFUSION; DELTA RHYTHM; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DNA STRUCTURE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENE; HUMAN; JEALOUS DELUSION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMNESIA; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REPEAT EXPANSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREMOR; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

AGED; DELUSIONS; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 84866170104     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2012-303032     Document Type: Letter

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