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Aging and Dementia
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Edited By
Francois Boller, MD, PhD, Bethesda, MD, USA
Jordan Grafman, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Handbook of Neuropsychology,
Description
The sixth volume of the Handbook is devoted to topics related to aging and dementia. The volume is introduced by two chapters dealing
with age-related cognitive and neurobiological alterations in animals, including a detailed review of data obtained with transgenic and
knockout technology. The next chapter reviews the cognitive changes associated with normal aging. The gamut of symptoms that occur in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) are then described and analyzed, they include effects on attention, language, memory, non-verbal functions with
emphasis on spatial abilities, olfaction and the motor system. The discussion of dementia syndromes is presented in two sections. The
first concerns AD, which is discussed from the points of view of epidemiology, neuropathology and neurochemistry and concludes with a
review of current and future treatments. The other section deals with non-AD dementias including Fronto-temporal and Lewy body dementias
and specific conditions such as Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, as well as HIV infection. The volume includes a review of brain
imaging and cerebral metabolism findings in aging and dementia. The final chapters review the relations between culture and dementia
and the special syndrome of severe dementia.
Contents
Preface. List of contributors. 1. Age-related cognitive and neurobiological alterations in animals (M. Dhenain). 2. Alzheimer's disease
and transgenic mouse models (T. G mez-Isla, M.C. Irizarry). 3. General and specific age-related influences on neuropsychological variables
(T.A. Salthouse). 4. Attention in dementia of the Alzheimer's type (D.A. Balota, M. Faust). 5. Language in normal aging and age-related
neurological disorders (A.E. Ramage, A.L. Holland). 6. Differential effects of aging and age-related neurological diseases on memory
systems and subsystems (G. Dalla Barba, D. Rieu). 7. Spatial abilities in aging, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease (A. Cronin-Golomb,
M. Amick). 8. Olfaction in neurodegenerative diseases (P. Liberini, S. Parola). 9. Motor function in neurodegenerative disease and aging
(D.H. Romero, G.E. Stelmach). 10. Epidemiology of dementia (L. Fratiglioni, W.A. Rocca). 11. Pathological correlates of dementia (C.
Duyckaerts, F. Boller). 12. Biomolecular correlates of dementia (S. Govoni, M. Racchi). 13. Treatment of dementia (M. Pippenger, J. Cummings).
14. Non-Alzheimer degenerative dementias (G. Binetti, F. Pasquier, S.F. Cappa). 15. Cognitive deficits and dementia in Parkinson's disease
((B. Pillon, F. Boller, R. Levy, B. Dubois). 16. Neuropsychological deficits in Huntington's disease: Implications for striatal function
in cognition (D.P. Salmon, J.M. Hamilton, G.M. Peavy). 17. The neuropsychology of HIV infection (T. Sun, K. Marder, Y. Stern). 18. Brain
imaging in normal aging and dementia (D. Perani, S.F. Cappa). 19. Cultural background as a risk factor for dementia (A. Castro-Caldas,
M. Guerreiro). 20. Severe dementia and its evaluation: Scales for cognition, behavior and overall functioning (M. Verny, L. Hugonot-Diener,
F. Boller). Subject index
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Paperback, 498 pages, publication date: DEC-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-50372-5
ISBN-10: 0-444-50372-2
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Hardbound, 498 pages, publication date: DEC-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-50363-3
ISBN-10: 0-444-50363-3
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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