DHEA treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

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Published in Neurology on April 08, 2003

Authors

O M Wolkowitz1, J H Kramer, V I Reus, M M Costa, K Yaffe, P Walton, M Raskind, E Peskind, P Newhouse, D Sack, E De Souza, C Sadowsky, E Roberts, DHEA-Alzheimer's Disease Collaborative Research

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, USA. owenw@itsa.ucsf.edu

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