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Pre-Senile Dementia Responding to Steroid Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. Chynoweth
Affiliation:
Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
J. Foley
Affiliation:
Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex

Extract

The diagnosis of pre-senile dementia is a clinical one and implies a state of intellectual and/or emotional impairment due to organic cerebral change.

Type
Pharmacotherapy
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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