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What Are the Syndromes of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Rupert McShane
Affiliation:
Section of Old Age Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Fulbrook Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.

Extract

Syndromes are clusters of symptoms that tend to occur together in the same patient. They usually are described crosssectionally (i.e., the symptoms occur in the same individual at the same time) but can also occur longitudinally (i.e., the symptoms occur in the same individual but at different times).

Type
Phenomenology
Copyright
© 2000 International Psychogeriatric Association

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