
Neuropsychological Tools for Dementia
Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
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Description
Key Features
- Includes epidemiological information regarding dementia
- Demonstrates the use of neuropsychological tests and screening tools in diagnosing and differentiating patients with dementia
- Outlines which investigation strategy and neuropsychological tests work best for assessing patients for different neurodegenerative diseases
- Reviews specific interventions to slow the progress of dementia wherever possible
- Discusses the neuropathology, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Readership
Advanced students and researchers in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Neuropsychology and the assessment of patients with dementia
2. Alzheimer’s disease: neuropathology, neuropsychological differential diagnosis, and treatment
3. The alphasynucleinopathies: Parkinson’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and multisystem atrophy
4. Atypical Parkinson’s diseases: progressive supranuclear paralysis and corticobasal degeneration
5. Primary progressive aphasias
6. Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia
7. Normal pressure hydrocephalus
8. A short guideline for the neuropsychological differential diagnosis of the dementias
9. Overview treatment options
Product details
- No. of pages: 412
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: November 27, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128210734
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128210727
About the Author
Helmut Hildebrandt
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