Dementia presentations, differential diagnosis, and nosology / edited by V. Olga B. Emery and Thomas E. Oxman.

Other author Emery, V. Olga B.
Other author Oxman, Thomas E.
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxxxiv, 533 p. : ill.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Dementia--diagnosis.
Dementia--classification.

Contents Boundaries between normal aging and dementia : perspectives from neuropsychological and neuroimaging investigations / Laura A. Flashman ... [et al.] -- The spectrum of dementias : construct and nosologic validity / Thomas E. Oxman -- Diagnostic procedures for dementia / Christopher J. Patterson and A. Marc Clarfield -- The neuropathology of Alzheimer dementia / Jerzy Wegiel ... [et al.] -- Neural inflammatory mechanisms in Alzheimer syndrome / Edith G. McGeer and Patrick L. McGeer -- Clinical subgroups of Alzheimer disease / Magnus Sjögren, Anders Wallin, and Kaj Blennow -- Progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia, and other "focal dementias" / Howard S. Kirshner -- "Retrophylogenesis" of memory in dementia of the Alzheimer type : a new evolutionary memory framework / V. Olga B. Emery
Contents -- Cortical and frontosubcortical dementias : differential diagnosis / Frédéric Assal and Jeffrey L. Cummings -- Noninfarct vascular dementia : the spectrum of vascular dementia and Alzheimer syndrome / V. Olga B. Emery, Edward X. Gillie, and Joseph A. Smith
Contents -- The relationship of hypertension to vascular dementia / Shotai Kobayashi -- Vascular dementias and Alzheimer disease : differential diagnosis / Tuula Pirttilä, Timo Erkinjuntti, and Vladimir Hachinski -- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome dementia complex / Richard W. Price -- Depressive dementia : a "prepermanent intermediate-stage dementia" in a long-term disease course of permanent dementia? / V. Olga B. Emery and Thomas E. Oxman -- Depressive dementia : cognitive and biological correlates and course of illness / George S. Alexopoulos -- The nondepressive pseudodementias / Perminder Sachdev and Sharon Reutens -- Neurobiology of major depression in Alzheimer disease / George S. Zubenko -- Approaches to the treatment of dementing illness / Thomas E. Oxman and Robert B. Santulli -- The spectra of the dementias / V. Olga B. Emery and Thomas E. Oxman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2002009445
ISBN9780801871566 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0801871565 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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