Pathology and temporal onset of visual hallucinations, misperceptions and family misidentification distinguishes dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer's disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 227-231

  Ferman, T J ^a   Arvanitakis, Z ^b   Fujishiro, H ^a   Duara, R ^c   Parfitt, F ^a   Purdy, M ^d   Waters, C ^e   Barker, W ^c   Graff Radford, N R ^a   Dickson, D W ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ORLANDO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Holmes Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Lewy body disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSIONAL MISIDENTIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY MISIDENTIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; ONSET AGE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL MISPERCEPTION;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES;

EID: 84873734416     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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