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Assessing Mental Status in Dementia: The Behavioral Neurology Assessment - Right time? Right place?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Howard H. Feldman  and
Claudia Jacova
Howard H. Feldman
Affiliation:
Vancouver, BC
Claudia Jacova
Affiliation:
Vancouver, BC
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , May 2005 , pp. 138 - 139
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