Lewy Cisimli Demans - Tanı ve Tedavi
Hülya Deniz, Cem İlnem, Armağan Samancı
Article No:
9
Article Type :
Research
Recent reports have suggested that brain stem and cortical Lewy body formation may identify a neurodegenerative disorder in elderly demented individuals which accounts for up to 20 % of cases of senile dementia coming to autopsy. Fluctuating cognitive impairment; psychotic features including visual and auditory hallucinations, and paranoid delusions, depressive symptoms, falling and unexplained losses of consciousness were all seen significantly more often than in Alzheimer disease.
Keywords :
Lewy body, dementia
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1998;11:41-48
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