Sleepiness, parkinsonian features and sustained attention in mild Alzheimer's disease
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Sleepiness, parkinsonian features and sustained attention in mild Alzheimer's disease.
BACKGROUND we previously demonstrated that patients with mild Alzheimer's disease and parkinsonian features (AD + PF) are at a higher risk of having daytime sleepiness than mild AD patients without PF (AD - PF). OBJECTIVE to determine whether AD + PF patients demonstrate a known a consequence of daytime sleepiness, reduced performance-based sustained attention, compared with AD - PF patients....
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs084