Dementia:An Atlas Of Investigation and Diagnosis

This thoughtful new work begins by asking the question ‘what is
normal in cognitive and pathological ageing?’ The clinician’s
experience of dementia and mild cognitive impairment suggests that
these conditions present in a variety of forms and progress at
different rates, with a spectrum of disability ranging from a barely
perceptible loss of mental acuity to the severe debilitation of
advanced Alzheimer’s disease. This atlas utilises diagnostic
imaging, histopathological findings, schematic diagrams and other
graphics to illustrate the symptom profiles, etiology, and
epidemiology of the more common dementias. The authors present
comparisons of Alzheimer’s and Lewy body disease, frontal temporal
and vascular dementias and other dementing illnesses, to illustrate
the problems inherent in distinguishing between them, and in making a
diagnosis.
1. Cognitive aging and dementia
2. Interview screen and staging
3. Neuropathology investigation
4. Neuropathology of normal aging
5. Alzheimer’s disease
6. Dementia with Lewy bodies
7. Frontotemporal dementia
8. Vascular dementia
9. Miscellaneous dementias

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