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Losing A Million Minds

Losing A Million Minds

Office of Technology Assessment

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Press Holdings International
Año de edición:
2002
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Neurología y neurofisiología clínicas
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9781410202390
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Prepared at the request of several committees of Congress, this report discusses the medical, social, political, and financial aspects of dementia in the elderly and assesses the impact of these diseases on the Nation. The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment published this first government report on Alzheimer’s disease in 1987.

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