Behavioral and Psychologic Symptoms in Different Types of Dementia
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Different types of dementia
The term “dementia” is used to describe a number of diseases, the most common of which is Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Other types of dementia include vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia, as well as dementias resulting from infections, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or HIV, and from genetically inherited syndromes, such as Huntington’s disease (Huntington’s ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0929-6646
DOI: 10.1016/s0929-6646(09)60150-9