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Abstract
Aberrant motor behaviors leading to inappropriate or purposeless activities in people with dementia. Aberrant motor behaviors in people with dementia include aggression, agitation, refusal to care and wandering.
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- Aberrant Motor Behaviors in Dementia
- Disturbance in Motor Function in Dementia
- Disturbances in Motor Function in Dementia
- Aggression in Dementia
- Agitation in Dementia
- Care Refusal in Dementia
- Care Rejection in Dementia
- Dementia Aggression
- Dementia Agitation
- Dementia Wandering
- Rejection of Care in Dementia
- Wandering in Dementia
- Aggression, Dementia
- Agitation, Dementia
- Wandering, Dementia
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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2024
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- National Library of Medicine. Aberrant Motor Behavior in Dementia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000096762. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000096762
- Aberrant Motor Behavior in Dementia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124289961