JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 335-337 , June 2006

Effects of Group-Home Care on Behavioral Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Psychotropic Drug Use in Patients With Frontotemporal Dementia

  • Osamu Yokota, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
    • Kinoko Espoir Hospital, Kasaoka, Japan
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  • Yoshikatsu Fujisawa, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Kinoko Espoir Hospital, Kasaoka, Japan
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  • Jun Takahashi, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Kinoko Espoir Hospital, Kasaoka, Japan
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  • Seishi Terada, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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  • Takeshi Ishihara, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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  • Hanae Nakashima, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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  • Etsuko Oshima, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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  • Aki Kugo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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  • Toshie Ata, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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  • Hideki Ishizu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
    • Department of Laboratory Medicine, Zikei Institute of Psychiatry, Okayama, Japan
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  • Shigetoshi Kuroda, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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  • Ken Sasaki, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Kinoko Espoir Hospital, Kasaoka, Japan

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PII: S1525-8610(06)00169-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.02.012

JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 335-337 , June 2006

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