Differences of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in Disease Severity in Four Major Dementias.

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSDs) negatively impact the prognosis of dementia patients and increase caregiver distress. The aims of this study were to clarify the differences of trajectories of 12 kinds of BPSDs by disease severity in four major dementias and to develop chart...

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Main Authors: Hiroaki Kazui, Kenji Yoshiyama, Hideki Kanemoto, Yukiko Suzuki, Shunsuke Sato, Mamoru Hashimoto, Manabu Ikeda, Hibiki Tanaka, Yutaka Hatada, Masateru Matsushita, Yoshiyuki Nishio, Etsuro Mori, Satoshi Tanimukai, Kenjiro Komori, Taku Yoshida, Hideaki Shimizu, Teruhisa Matsumoto, Takaaki Mori, Tetsuo Kashibayashi, Kazumasa Yokoyama, Tatsuo Shimomura, Yasunobu Kabeshita, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Toshihisa Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4990196?pdf=render