Binswanger on Binswanger's disease
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MD Hans Forstl; Robert Howard; Raymond Levy
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In 1894 Otto Binswanger described a disease of the hemispheric white matter which he called 'encephalitis subcorticalis chronica progressiva'. He examined eight patients who had shown a slow but relentless cognitive decay that began in middle or old age and lead to severe dementia, characterized in