• DOI:10.1212/01.wnl.0000188759.87240.8b
Corpus ID: 11672234

The effects of executive and behavioral dysfunction on the course of ALS

@article{Olney2005TheEO,
  title={The effects of executive and behavioral dysfunction on the course of ALS},
  author={R. Olney and J. Murphy and D. Forshew and E. Garwood and B. Miller and S. Langmore and M. Kohn and C. Lomen-Hoerth},
  journal={Neurology},
  year={2005},
  volume={65},
  pages={1774 - 1777}
}

R. Olney, J. Murphy, +5 authors C. Lomen-Hoerth

Published 2005

Psychology, Medicine

Neurology

Objective: To determine whether patients with ALS–frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLD) have a shorter survival and are less compliant with recommended treatments than those with ALS who have normal executive and behavioral function (classic ALS). Methods: Survival analysis from ALS symptom onset to death included 81 of 100 consecutive patients who could be classified definitely as ALS with abnormal executive or behavioral function or as classic ALS. Criteria were defined for compliance with… CONTINUE READING

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