Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia

A Practical Guide for Clinicians

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ISBN: 9780323286619

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Memory Loss combines expert guidance, case studies, and diagnostic tests to help you effectively diagnose Alzheimers disease and other common dementias. Drs. Andrew E. Budson and Paul R. Solomon cover the essentials of physical and cognitive examinations, laboratory and imaging studies, and the latest treatment approaches. The practical text, diagnostic tests, and online access to a downloadable image bank at www.expertconsult.com are the tools you need to consistently make accurate diagnoses.

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Brand Elsevier

Reference 56760

EAN13 9780323286619

ISBN 9780323286619

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Publication date: 2015
Issue number: 2
Cover: paperback
Pages count: 276
Dimensions (mm): 191 x 235
Weight (g): 630

SECTION I:: EVALUATING THE PATIENT WITH MEMORY LOSS

1. Why Diagnose and Treat Memory Loss, Alzheimers Disease, and Dementia?

2. Evaluating the Patient with Memory Loss or Dementia

SECTION II:: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MEMORY LOSS

3. Approach to the Patient with Memory Loss, Mild Cognitive Impairment, or Dementia

4. Alzheimers Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimers Disease

5. Dementia with Lewy Bodies (Including Parkinsons Disease Dementia)

6. Vascular Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment

7. Primary Progressive Aphasia & Other Disorders of Speech

8. Frontotemporal Dementia

9. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

10. Corticobasal Degeneration

11. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

12. Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease

13. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

14. Other Disorders That Disrupt Memory

SECTION III:: TREATMENT OF MEMORY LOSS

15. Goals of Treatment of Memory Loss, Alzheimers Disease, and Dementia

16. Cholinesterase Inhibitors

17. Memantine (Generic and Namenda XR)

18. Vitamins, Herbs, Supplements, and Anti-Inflammatories

19. Future Treatments of Memory Loss

20. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Memory Loss

SECTION IV:: BEHAVIORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA

21. Evaluating the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

22. Caring For and Educating the Caregiver

23. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

24. Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

SECTION V:: ADDITIONAL ISSUES

25. Life Adjustments

26. Legal and Financial Issues

27. Special Issues

ONLINE ONLY APPENDICES

APPENDIX A:: Cognitive Test and Questionnaire Forms, Instructions, and Normative Data

APPENDIX B:: Screening for Memory Loss

APPENDIX C:: Our Current Understanding of Memory