Dementia in clinical practice.

9783805590150

Dementia in clinical practice.

Ed. by P. Giannakopoulos and P.R. Hof.

S. Karger, AG

2009

184 pages

$198.00

Hardcover

Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience; v.24

RC521

Twenty-seven European and North American academics and practitioners contribute 19 chapters offering mental health professionals as well as general practitioners and students an up-to-date discussion of new evidences from basic and clinical sciences concerning four major dementing illnesses likely to be encountered in a daily practice: Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body disease, and frontotemporal dementia. To facilitate reading by a nonspecialist, chapters within each of the four sections are organized following the same scheme, reviewing the pathophysiology of the disease, its diagnostic challenges, its characteristic neuroimaging features, therapeutic interventions, and patient management issues. The text is illustrated with b&w and color figures, tables, and charts.

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