Table of Contents 1. Dementia: Significance, Definition, and
Epidemiology 2. Mental Status Assessment 3. Diagnosis of
Dementia 4. Alzheimer's Disease 5. Vascular Dementia 6.
Frontotemporal Dementia and the Asymmetric Cortical Atrophies 7.
Parkinsonian Disorders with Dementia 8. Non-Parkinsonian Motor
Disorders with Dementia 9. Dementia from Conventional Infectious
Agents 10. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Prion Disorders
11. Toxic-Matabolic Causes of Dementia 12. Psychiatric Dementias
Associated with Psychiatric Disorders 13. Miscellaneous Dementia
Syndromes 14. Pharmacotherapy of Alzheimer's Disease and Other
Dementias 15. Non-Pharmacologic Management of Dementia 16.
Conclusions and Directions Index
Author Information
By Mario Mendez, MD; and Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, Professor of
Neurology and Psychiatry, University of California at Los
Angeles, School Medicine