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Concept of disease in geriatric psychiatry.
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry - 1 Jan 2007
Krishnan K Ranga Rama
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The concept of disease in geriatric psychiatry has to keep up with the rapid expansion in knowledge about the putative etiology of various diseases of interest. This article reviews the new knowledge that has been acquired about dementia. The proposed classification system has two axes: one for clinical manifestations and the other for etiology. Implementing this nomenclature will allow rapid adaptation of new...
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