The dementias
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The dementias
（Blue books of practical neurology, 19）
Butterworth-Heinemann, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dementia, technically defined as cognitive impairments sufficiently pervasive and severe enough that they disrupt independent life, is one of the most devastating symptoms of neurologic disease. While Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease that causes it, more than 50 medical, psychiatric, and neurological conditions are associated with dementia. Well organized and expertly planned, this text provides new concepts of patient management that have come about through recent neuroscience research. This volume, reviewing the dementias with the needs of the clinician in mind, is unique in that the section dealing with disease mechanisms reviews the exciting recent scientific advance in regard to Alzheimer disease, whereas the clinical section (section A) focuses not on Alzheimer disease, but upon related disorders, the less common dementing syndromes due to other neurodegenerative disorders. The editors of this "Blue Book" have brought together an extraordinary group of experts to define the scientific advances primarily in Alzheimer's disease (section B) and new treatments (section C) being developed.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Degenerative Diseases That Cause Dementia: Pick's Disease
- Frontal and Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Parkinsonian Syndromes Associated with Dementia
- Human Prion Diseases: Etiology and Clinical Features
- Part II: Scientific Advances in Understanding the Dementias: Molecular Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease
- Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease
- Anatomic Neuroimaging in the Dementias
- Functional Neuroimaging in Dementia
- Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease: The Role of Amyloid
- Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease: Neuronal Cytoskeletal Abnormalities
- Bioenergetics, Excitotoxicity and Oxidative Injury in the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Disease
- Part III: Treatment of Dementias: Current Pharmacological Treatments for Dementia
- The Future of Drug Therapy in Alzheimer's Disease
- Part IV: Questions and Controversies: Rethinking Vascular Dementia: Moving From Myth To Mechanism
- Is Alzheimer's Disease Just Old Age ?
- Controversies in the Classification of Focal Lobar Atrophies
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