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P2‐270: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, of cognitive impairment no dementia and mild Alzheimer's disease in community‐dwelling elderly
Author(s) -
Shin Il-Seon,
Kim Sung-wan,
Kim Jae-Min,
Yang Su-Jin,
Yoon Jin-Sang
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2008.05.1346
Subject(s) - apathy , dementia , irritability , dysphoria , anxiety , depression (economics) , psychiatry , psychology , clinical dementia rating , clinical psychology , medicine , disease , cognition , economics , macroeconomics
disinhibition was relatively more common in the SVD patients. These results suggest that neuropsychiatric symptoms are more prominent in PDD and SVD patients than in AD patients with early stage of dementia, because PDD and SVD groups are more related deficits in the frontalsubcortical circuits. Acknowledgment: This study was supported by a grant of the Korea Health 21 R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (A050079).