Alzheimer and vascular brain diseases: Focal and diffuse subforms
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Alzheimer and vascular brain diseases: Focal and diffuse subforms
Alois Alzheimer is best known for his description of the pre-senile neurodegenerative disease named after him. However, his previous interest in vascular brain diseases, underlying cognitive and behavioral changes, was very strong. Besides describing the Arteriosclerotic atrophy of the brain and the arteriosclerotic subtype of Senile dementia which he viewed as main forms of vascular brain dise...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dementia & Neuropsychologia
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1980-5764
DOI: 10.1590/1980-57642015dn93000015