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McKeel Daniel W |
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Dementia [[electronic resource]] |
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Oxford, : Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd, 2007 |
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1-280-75119-3 |
9786610751198 |
1-84692-545-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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An Atlas of Investigation and Management |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Cognitive aging and dementia: an overview; Chapter 2: Interviewing, screening, and staging of dementia: a focus on Alzheimer's disease; Chapter 3: Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: neuropathologic investigation methods; Chapter 4: Neuropathology of healthy brain aging; Chapter 5: Neuropathology of pre clinical and clinical Alzheimer's disease; Chapter 6: Neuropathology of vascular dementia; Chapter 7 Dementia with Lewy bodies; Chapter 8: The frontotemporal dementias; Chapter 9: Neuropathology of miscellaneous dementing disorders; Appendix; Index |
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This thoughtful new work begins by asking the question 'what is normal in cognitive and pathological ageing?' The clinician's experience of dementia and mild cognitive impairment suggests that these conditions present in a variety of forms and progress at different rates, with a spectrum of disability ranging from a barely perceptible loss of mental acuity to the severe debilitation of advanced Alzheimer's disease. This atlas utilizes diagnostic imaging, histopathological findings, schematic diagrams and other graphics to illustrate the symptom profiles, etiology, and epidemiology of the more |
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