The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias
American Psychiatric Association Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-58562-278-8 (ISBN)
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of dementia for psychiatrists and other health care practitioners who deal with cognitively impaired adults in outpatient, inpatient, and long-term care settings. With content ranging from clinical guidance to basic research, it contains information on nearly every subject related to dementing conditions or illnesses—not only providing extensive coverage of clinical management issues but also enabling a deeper understanding of the causes of dementia. Designed to assist the practitioner faced with everyday dilemmas, from dosages of antipsychotic drugs to legal and ethical issues, this textbook describes in detail the most common conditions and diseases leading to dementia and covers pharmacologic, behavioral, and environmental treatments. It also considers a broader range of cognitive disorders and impairment in order to help practitioners recognize and treat primary brain diseases and systemic disorders affecting the brain before they reach the stage of dementia.
Building on the editors' earlier work The Dementias: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research, this new book expands on its scope, with nearly twice the number of contributors—all clinicians or researchers at the vanguard of the field. New to this edition are chapters on epidemiology, history of dementia, biomarkers for Alzheimer disease, care of the late-stage dementia patient, prevention of dementia, and chapters devoted to:
• Vascular cognitive impairment, emphasizing the importance of early detection with development of appropriate treatments and risk factor control
• Dementia with Lewy bodies and other synucleinopathies, describing differences in cognitive profile between synucleinopathies and Alzheimer disease
• Frontotemporal dementias, including behavioral and language variants
• Traumatic brain injury, distinguishing between proximal and distal effects and risk factors for dementia later in life
An abundance of charts and illustrations, extensive references and additional readings, and chapter-end key points make this a practical volume for learning, while appendixes include easily administered instruments useful in daily practice for grading cognition, day-to-day function, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and quality of life. Whether used as a clinical guide or as a sourcebook on technical and scientific developments, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias is an important reference for psychiatrists, neurologists, geriatricians, primary care physicians, and other health professionals who deal with cognitively impaired adults.
Myron F. Weiner, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology; Aradine S. Ard Chair in Brain Science; and Dorothy L. and John P. Harbin Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., is in the Department of Neurology at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas in Dallas, Texas.
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
PART I: Introduction to the Dementias
Chapter 1. Dementia and Alzheimer Disease: Ancient Greek Medicine to Modern Molecular Biology
Chapter 2. Epidemiology and Impact of Dementia
PART II: Evaluation and Diagnosis of Dementia
Chapter 3. Neuropsychiatric Assessment and Diagnosis
Chapter 4. Medical Evaluation and Diagnosis
Chapter 5. Neuropsychological Assessment in Dementia
Chapter 6. Neuroimaging
Chapter 7. Cognitive Disorders as Psychobiological Processes
PART III: Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias
Chapter 8. Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 9. Mild Cognitive Impairment
Chapter 10. Vascular Cognitive Disorder
Chapter 11. Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Other Synucleinopathies
Chapter 12. Frontotemporal Dementia
Chapter 13. Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter 14. Other Causes of Dementia
Chapter 15. Psychiatric Disorders in People With Dementia
PART IV: Treatment of Dementia
Chapter 16. Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
Chapter 17. Behavioral and Environmental Management
Chapter 18. Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimer Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Chapter 19. Management of Advanced Dementia
PART V: Caregiving, Legal, and Ethical Issues
Chapter 20. Supporting Family Caregivers
Chapter 21. Legal Issues
Chapter 22. Ethical Issues and Patterns of Practice
PART VI: Dementias: The Future
Chapter 23. Biomarkers for the Dementias
Chapter 24. The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 25. The Future of Dementia Treatment
Chapter 26. Prevention of Dementia and Cognitive Decline
APPENDIXES
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.5.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 Plates, black and white; 24 Halftones, black and white; 26 Line drawings, black and white; 66 Tables, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | VA |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 1842 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58562-278-8 / 1585622788 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58562-278-8 / 9781585622788 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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