## Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine whether cognitive test performances alone could distinguish patients with probable Alzheimer's disease from those with probable vascular dementia. Sixty‐eight outpatients with clinical diagnoses of either Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementi
Differentiating Alzheimer’s disease from subcortical vascular dementia with the FAB test
✍ Scribed by Hiroaki Oguro; Shuhei Yamaguchi; Satoshi Abe; Yuri Ishida; Hirokazu Bokura; Shotai Kobayashi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 76 KB
- Volume
- 253
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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