Epileptic Pseudodementia by Antidepressants
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Pseudodementia and competency.
An increase in the number of challenges to competency determinations in probate cases parallels an increasingly aging population. In the literature on competency determination, there is little if any discussion of the implications of pseudodementing conditions, which can quite readily be misdiagnosed as true dementias, especially in the elderly. This case report describes a patient thought to h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Rare Disorders: Diagnosis & Therapy
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2380-7245
DOI: 10.21767/2380-7245.100167