Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stageAuthor Response

Autor: Suzee E. Lee, Amanda K. LaMarre, S. Christine You, Tal Shany-Ur, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Katherine P. Rankin, Katherine L. Possin, Bruce L. Miller, Howard J. Rosen, David C. Perry, Marie Sarazin, Adam L. Boxer, Zachary A. Miller, Maxime Bertoux, Melanie L. Stephens, Joel H. Kramer, William W. Seeley, Virginia E. Sturm, Keith A. Vossel, Brianne M. Bettcher, Michel Bottlaender, Leonardo Cruz de Souza, Gil D. Rabinovici, Iryna Lobach, Kamalini G. Ranasinghe, Michael Hornberger, Florence Pasquier, Eneida Mioshi
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Neurology. 87:1523-1523
ISSN: 1526-632X
0028-3878
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