Dementia and Motor Neuron Disease is a single authoritative reference on the current understanding of frontotemporal dementia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Features:

• Comprehensive work ideal for clinical and research groups focusing on dementia or ALS, as well as those working in the fields of neuroimaging and neuropsychology
• Includes frontotemporal dementia, including history, anatomy, and impairment; clinical phenomenology and treatment; cognitive dysfunction; neuroimaging; molecular and cellular neuropathology; genetics; and neurochemistry
• Offers contributions from international opinion leaders in dementia and motor neuron disease

Contents

1. Frontotemporal Dementia in ALS: Lessons from History
2. Frontotempotral Dementia: Current Concepts
3. Clinical Phenomenology and Treatment of Frontotemporal Dementia
4. The Clinical and Pathological Spectrum of ALS
5. Identification and Categorization of Frontotemporal Impairment in ALS
6. The Spectrum of Altered Cognition in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
7. The Spectrum of Cognitive Dysfunction in ALS/MND in the Japanese Population
8. Primary Lateral Sclerosis: Cognitive, Language, and Cerebral Hemodynamic Findings
9. The Anatomic Basis of Symptoms in Frontotemporal Dementia
10. Neuroimaging in ALS and ALS with Frontotemporal Dementia
11. New Approaches to Imaging in ALS
12. Neuropathology of Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations
13. Molecular and Cellular Neuropathology of Cognitive Dysfunction in ALS
14. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex of Guam
15. Neuropathology of the Japanese Variants of FTD/ALS
16. The Genetics of Frontotemporal Dementia
17. Frontotemporal Dementia and the involvement of tau
18. Altered tau Protein Metabolism in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Cognitive Iimpairment
19. Frontotemporal Syndromes in the Motor Neuron Diseases

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