Suicidal behavior in dementia: A special risk in semantic dementia

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 592-599

  Sabodash, Valeriy ^a,b   Mendez, Mario F ^a,b   Fong, Sylvia ^b   Hsiao, Julia J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; dementia; depression; primary progressive aphasia; semantic dementia; suicidal; suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOMIA; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HANGING; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; RETINA IMAGE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SUICIDAL; SUICIDE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEMANTICS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84883332628     PISSN: 15333175     EISSN: 19382731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1533317513494447     Document Type: Article

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