The Dementias: Blue Books of Practical Neurology, Volume 19 (Volume 19) (Blue Books of Practical Neurology, 19)
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0750699205 / Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, August 1998
Defining dementia as cognitive impairments sufficiently pervasive and severe that they disrupt independent life, describes some of the medical, psychiatric, and neurologic conditions associated with it and its study and treatment. Discusses degenerative diseases that cause dementia such as Pick's Disease and some Parkinsonian syndromes; scientific advances in understanding dementias, among them the molecular genetics and pathology of Alzheimer's Disease and functional neuroimaging; current and future drug treatments for Alzheimer's in particular and dementia in general; and questions and controversies, among them vascular dementia, whether Alzheimer's is really just old age, and the classification of focal lobar atrophies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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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.* Written for non-expert general neurologists and residents * Provides new concepts of patient management discovered in neuroscience research * Includes unique coverage of recent scientific advances in Alzheimer's Disease
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