Dementia

Dementia

by McNamara, Patrick

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Dementia is the first comprehensive treatment of neuropsychiatric approaches to both onset and treatment of the major dementias. Within these three volumes, leading experts on brain science and research explain details, developments, and emerging treatments for one of the most widespread, devastating disorders worldwidedementia. This title provides mechanistic accounts of dementia onset that take into account neuropsychiatric disorders of dementia and reviews of the latest treatments for both p…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Dementia / Patrick McNamara, editor.

Summary

Dementia is the first comprehensive treatment of neuropsychiatric approaches to both onset and treatment of the major dementias. Within these three volumes, leading experts on brain science and research explain details, developments, and emerging treatments for one of the most widespread, devastating disorders worldwidedementia. This title provides mechanistic accounts of dementia onset that take into account neuropsychiatric disorders of dementia and reviews of the latest treatments for both patient and caregivers.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2011

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Praeger
  • Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2011

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (42 entries) : : 43 images, digital files.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781780349596, 1780349599, 9780313384356, 0313384355
  • oclc:ocn815979064
  • LC Classification:RC521
  • Dewey Decimal:616.8/3

Table of Contents

Preface: Hopeful Trends in Meeting the Challenge of the Dementias / Patrick McNamara -- Volume 1: History and Incidence. Chapter 1. Epidemiology of the Dementias / Chengxuan Qiu and Laura Fratiglioni; Chapter 2. Cost of Illness Studies and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia / Wilm Quentin ... et al.; Chapter 3. A Stroke of Bad Luck: CADASIL and Friedrich Nietzsche's "Dementia" or Madness / Paul M. Butler; Chapter 4. Promising Strategies for Preventing Dementia / Laura E. Middleton; Chapter 5. Cultivating a Cognitive Lifestyle: Implications for Healthy Brain Aging and Dementia Prevention / Michael J. Valenzuela; Chapter 6. Ethical Issues in the Care of Individuals with Dementia / Art Walaszek; Chapter 7. Cognitive Screening and Neuropsychological and Functional Assessment: Contributions to Early Detection of Dementia / Mônica Sanches Yassuda, Mariana Kneese Flaks, and Fernanda Speggiorin Pereira; Chapter 8. Does Poor Sleep Quality in Late Life Compromise Cognition and Accelerate Progression of the Degenerative Dementias? / Peter Engel; Chapter 9. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: A Tool for Understanding Brain Chemical Changes in Dementias / Jacquelynn N. Copeland and H. Randall …

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Subjects

Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer's disease démence Dementia Maladie d'Alzheimer

Writers

McNamara, Patrick

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