Neurobiology of Primary Dementia - Hardcover

Association For Research In Nervous And Mental Disease

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880489154 ISBN 13: 9780880489157

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Although Alzheimer's disease represents the most frequent cause of dementia, it is not the only cause. Cerebrovascular disease and other degenerative and metabolic disorders have similar profound and debilitating consequences. This wide-ranging compendium of writings by leading educators and physicians is aimed at helping practitioners achieve one of the nation's primary health care goals -- reducing the number of people who require assistance for personal care activities by the year 2000.

In this balanced examination of the frequency and characteristics of dementia and cognitive impairment, contributors base their observations and conclusions on data collected within an ethnically diverse registry of elderly people who use community-based health care services. They explore topics ranging from familial Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases, and dementia associated with poststroke major depression to vascular dementia, dementia pugilistica, and head trauma as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. These experts also discuss diagnostic and treatment issues, as well as the thought-provoking topics of ethical questions involving dementia and dementia as it relates to health care reform.

Practitioners in health care and related services, providers, and policy makers will find the research, interpretation, and collective wisdom presented here essential for sound decision making about the way medicine deals with dementia in the elderly.

About this title

About the Author:

Marshal Folstein, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

Review:

I would recommend this book for anyone looking for a convenient way of updating their knowledge of dementia such as prion disease. -- British Journal of Psychiatry

Neurobiology of Primary Dementia should be required reading not only for neuroscientists but also for clinicians and students with an interest in dementia and aging. -- Gary W. Small, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Director, Center of Aging, University of California, Los Angeles, California

This book is tangible evidence of how far we have come from the time when almost any cognitive dysfunction in an adult was classified as senile dementia. -- Gary J. Tucker, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

This superb book is clinically useful, well referenced, and a welcome addition to the field...I highly recommend it -- Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

[T]his book provides a sensible and balanced summary of the current state of dementia research and should have a place on the bookshelves of workers in this field -- International Psychogeriatrics

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0880489154
• ISBN 13: 9780880489157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Folstein Marshal F.