The relationship between depressive symptoms, disease state, and cognition in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Jelsone Swain, Laura ^a   Persad, Carol ^b   Votruba, Kristen L ^b   Weisenbach, Sara L ^b   Johnson, Timothy ^c   Gruis, Kirsten L ^c,d   Welsh, Robert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; ALSFRS r; Cognition; Depression; Limb symptoms; Motor neuron disease; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874569135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00542     Document Type: Article

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