Psychotic symptoms in frontotemporal dementia: A diagnostic dilemma?

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 531-539

  Landqvist Waldö, Maria ^a   Gustafson, Lars ^a   Passant, Ulla ^a   Englund, Elisabet ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

delusions; first clinical diagnosis; frontotemporal dementia; hallucinations; neuropathology; paranoid ideas; psychosis; psychotic symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELUSION; DISEASE DURATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HALLUCINATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PARANOIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGED; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; HALLUCINATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 84924270172     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610214002580     Document Type: Article

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