Behavioral and psychological symptoms and hippocampal atrophy in subcortical ischaemic vascular disease

ABSTRACT Background: Neuropsychiatric symptoms are common in patients with cognitive impairments, mediated by both neurodegenerative processes and cerebrovascular disease. Previous studies have reported that Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) might correlate with severity of...

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Main Authors: Chan Tiel, Felipe Kenji Sudo, Carlos Eduardo Oliveira Alves, Gilberto Sousa Alves, Letice Ericeira-Valente, Denise Madeira Moreira, Jerson Laks, Eliasz Engelhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642012000300175&lng=en&tlng=en