Dementia [[e-book] /] / edited by Mario Maj, Norman Sartorius

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143228003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley, , 2002; ©2002
• ISBN: 1-280-10147-4; 9786610101474; 0-470-34159-9; 0-470-85860-5; 0-470-86187-8
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Collana: WPA Series Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry ; ; Volume 3
• Disciplina: 616.83
• Soggetti: Dementia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: VOLUME 3 Dementia Second Edition; Contents; List of Review Contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1 DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DEMENTIA; Definition and Epidemiology of Dementia: A Review; COMMENTARIES; 1.1 The Continuing Evolution of Dementia Epidemiology; 1.2 Dementia: Hope for the Future; 1.3 Dementia: Much Information, Many Unanswered Questions; 1.4 Vascular Factors and Dementia; 1.5 Dementia: Known and Unknown; 1.6 Dementia: a Public Health Emergency and a Scientific Challenge; 1.7 Dementia: Plenty of Questions Still to Be Answered; 1.8 Rates and Risk Factors for Dementia: Evidence or Controversy? 1.9 Dementia: the Public Health Challenge; 1.10 Definition and Epidemiology of Dementia: Some Issues that Need Clarification; 1.11 Dementia: the Challenge for the Next Decade; 1.12 Recent Progress in the Definition and Epidemiology of Dementia; 1.13 Dementia: Some Controversial Issues; 1.14 Is the Prevalence Rate of Alzheimer's Disease Increasing in Japan?; CHAPTER 2 CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF DEMENTIA; Clinical Diagnosis of Dementia: A Review; COMMENTARIES; 2.1 The Value of Inclusive Diagnostic Thinking and Appreciating Developmental Variance2.2 Reflections on Retrogenesis; 2.3 Dementia: Diagnosis, Progression and Retrogression; 2.4 Staging of Severe Alzheimer's Disease and the Concept of Retrogenesis: Doors to be Opened for Research and Clinical Practice; 2.5 When Diagnosis is Certain, Functional Scores are Robust and Recommendable Markers of the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease; 2.6 Findings with the Aid of Functional Assessment Staging (FAST); 2.7 Two Decades of Longitudinal Research in Alzheimer's Disease; 2.8 Diagnosing Dementia: the Need for Improved Criteria 2.9 Pitfalls in Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease; 2.10 Evaluating the Performance of Measures to Assess Dementia; 2.11 Dementia as a Diagnostic Entity; CHAPTER 3 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL DIAGNOSIS OF DEMENTIA; Neuropsychological and Instrumental Diagnosis of Dementia: A Review; COMMENTARIES; 3.1 Improving Diagnosis of Dementia; 3.2 The Contribution of Neuropsychology to the Assessment of Dementia Syndromes; 3.3 Neuropsychological and Instrumental Diagnosis of Dementia: the Evidence; 3.4 Some Clinical Aspects and Research Issues in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia 3.5 The Role of Cognitive and Functional Evaluation in the Care of Patients with Dementia; 3.6 Evaluating the Cognitive Changes of Normal and Pathologic Aging; 3.7 Alzheimer's Disease and Other Degenerative Dementias: Need for an Early Diagnosis; 3.8 Neuropsychological and Instrumental Diagnosis of Dementia in a Clinical Context; 3.9 Neuropsychological Tests that are Helpful to the Etiological Diagnosis of Dementia; 3.10 The Importance of an Early Diagnosis in Alzheimer's Disease; 3.11 When Should We Use Which Diagnostic Tools?
• Sommario/riassunto: Dementia is most frequently associated with aging and is, at present, under-diagnosed and under-represented all over the world. Discrepancies in the diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions implemented in the various clinical contexts are significant and consequently, the need for a review of the currently available research evidence and a discussion of different clinical practices is urgently needed. This book provides a much needed review of the diagnostic procedures and the implementations of therapeutic interventions.* Provides accompanying commentaries by an outstanding