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The diagnostic challenge of psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease: rates of and risk factors for prior psychiatric diagnosis in patients with early neurodegenerative disease.
The Journal of clinical psychiatry - 1 Feb 2011
Woolley Josh D, Khan Baber K, Murthy Nikhil K, Miller Bruce L, Rankin Katherine P
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OBJECTIVE: To identify rates of and risk factors for psychiatric diagnosis preceding the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease. METHOD: Systematic, retrospective, blinded chart review was performed of 252 patients with a neurodegenerative disease diagnosis seen in our specialty clinic between 1999 and 2008. Neurodegenerative disease diagnoses included behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 69), semantic...
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