Dementia : a clinical approach
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Dementia : a clinical approach
Butterworth-Heinemann, c1992
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is both a scholarly review of the dementias and a practical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. The second edition follows the format of the very successful first edition while incorporating major studies in recent years in clinical diagnosis utilising advanced neurimaging techniques.
Table of Contents
- Dementia - definition, prevalence, classification and approach to diagnosis
- mental status examination
- cortical dementias in the extrapyramidal disorders
- vascular dementias
- AIDS encephalopathy, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, and other brain infections with dementia
- dementia in metabolic disturbances and toxic conditions
- hydrocephalic dementia
- dementia syndromes associated with psychiatric disorders - the "pseudodementias", dementias associated with trauma, neoplasms, enzyme deficiencies, multiple sclerosis, and other acquired and inherited disorders
- ageing and senility
- laboratory aids in diagnosis of dementia.
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