White Matter Dementia
- VernacularTitle:白质痴呆
- Author:
Wenmin WANG
;
Sun WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
White matter;
Dementia;
Neurobehavioral features
- From:Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology
2001;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The concept of white matter dementia was first introduced by Filley in 1988.It was found following behavioral neurologica researches that patients with this type of dementia manifested the dysfunctions of sustained attention,memory retrievial,frontal lobe and visualspatial function.They also had psychiatric manifestations but language and extrapyramidal function remained normal.10 diseases of white matter disorders are listed for understanding the clinical characteristics of this type of dementia.
