The florence VAS-COG Clinic: A model for the care of patients with cognitive and behavioral disturbances consequent to cerebrovascular diseases

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages S453-S461

  Poggesi, Anna ^a   Salvadori, Emilia ^a   Valenti, Raffaella ^a   Nannucci, Serena ^a   Ciolli, Laura ^a   Pescini, Francesca ^b   Pasi, Marco ^a   Fierini, Fabio ^a   Donnini, Ida ^a   Marini, Sandro ^a   Chiti, Guido ^a   Rinnoci, Valentina ^a   Inzitari, Domenico ^a   Pantoni, Leonardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dementia; mild cognitive impairment; outpatient clinic; post stroke aphasia; post stroke depression; small vessel disease; stroke; vascular cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIST; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK FACTOR; BEHAVIOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908220051     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-141569     Document Type: Article

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