The study of hyperphagia in dementia
Although people with hyperphagia show significantly more patterns of stereotyped behaviour than matched demented controls the prolonged period of eating does not seem to be due to a stereotypy but to a delay in the satiation mechanism. Hyperphagia typically occurs in the middle stages of the dementi...
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University of Oxford
1995
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282331 |