The spectrum of sociopathy in dementia

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-140

  Mendez, Mario F ^a   Shapira, Jill S ^a   Saul, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMPULSIVENESS; LAW; MALE; MEMORY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANOIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOCIOPATHY; THEFT; ARTICLE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARANOID PSYCHOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARANOID DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 85047687542     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: 15457222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/jnp.23.2.jnp132     Document Type: Review

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