Dementia diagnostic criteria in Down syndrome
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Dementia diagnostic criteria in Down syndrome.
OBJECTIVE Dementia is a common clinical presentation among older adults with Down syndrome. The presentation of dementia in Down syndrome differs compared with typical Alzheimer's disease. The performance of manualised dementia criteria in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) is uncertain in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.4228