Criminal behavior in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 295-300

  Liljegren, Madeleine ^a   Naasan, Georges ^b   Temlett, Julia ^c   Perry, David C ^b   Rankin, Katherine P ^b   Merrilees, Jennifer ^b   Grinberg, Lea T ^b   Seeley, William W ^b   Englund, Elisabet ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EDUCATION; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OBSESSION; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REWARD; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEFT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; OFFENDER; PSYCHOLOGY;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CRIMINALS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THEFT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84926337894     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: 21686157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2014.3781     Document Type: Article

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