Comprehensive treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies

Alzheimer's Research and Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Boot, Brendon P ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CLONAZEPAM; MELATONIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PIMAVANSERIN; RIVASTIGMINE; SYNUCLEIN;

AGITATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARASOMNIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW;

EID: 84931268112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17589193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13195-015-0128-z     Document Type: Review

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