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Prevalence of Primitive Reflexes and Parkinsonian Signs in Dementia

Kira A. Links, Doron Merims, Malcolm A. Binns, Morris Freedman, Tiffany W. Chow

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques · 2010 · 28 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

Primitive reflexes appear not to be clinically discriminative of frontally-based dementias such as FTD and VaD.

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