The VAS-COG clinic: An out-patient service for patients with cognitive and behavioral consequences of cerebrovascular diseases

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1277-1283

  Ciolli, Laura ^a   Poggesi, Anna ^a   Salvadori, Emilia ^a   Valenti, Raffaella ^a   Nannucci, Serena ^a   Pasi, Marco ^a   Pescini, Francesca ^a   Inzitari, Domenico ^a   Pantoni, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; Out patients; Post stroke aphasia; Post stroke depression; Stroke

Indexed keywords

NOTCH3 RECEPTOR;

AGED; ALSTROM SYNDROME; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CADASIL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FAMILIAL CAVERNOMATOSIS; FOLLOW UP; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROANGIOPATHY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MIXED DEMENTIA; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR GENE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STROOP TEST; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; AMBULATORY CARE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84883521337     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-012-0941-0     Document Type: Article

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