Handbook of Dementing Illness provides the most recent clinical, epidemiological, and neurodiagnostic information related to the care and treatment of dementing illnesses-addressing subjects of vital importance such as ethics, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, and neuropathology to stand as the foremost guide on the topic.

Features:

• Contains completely new and updated chapters on genetics, biomarkers, fronto-temporal dementia, Lewy body disorders, prion-diseases, HIV-related dementia, depression, care-giving, anti-amyloid strategies, and methods of prevention
• Provides a clear overview of the ethical, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of dementia
• Covers pharmacological and nonpharmacological management approaches, including the control of challenging symptoms and behaviors associated with dementia
• Examines current and future directions in drug therapy
• Reviews the many individual illnesses that can result in cognitive impairment
• Groups chapters into four major categories: neuronal degenerative disorders, other primary cerebral dementias, dementias caused by systemic disease, and psychiatric conditions

Contents

1. Ethical Issues in Dementia
2. Epidemiology of Dementia
3. Healthy Brain Aging
4. Neuropsychological Assessment in Dementia
5. Neuroimaging in Dementia: Functional Imaging
6. Neuropathology of Dementia
7. Genetics of Dementia
8. Biomarkers in Dementia
9. Alzheimer's Disease
10. Dementia in Down Syndrome
11. Dementia with Lewy Bodies
12. Frontotemporal Dementia
13. Vascular Dementia
14. Prion-diseases and Dementia
15. A Clinical Approach to Symptomatic Hydrocephalus in the Elderly
16. HIV-related Dementia
17. Influence of Co-morbidities in Dementia
18. Depression and Dementia
19. Driving and Dementia
20. Multi-Disciplinary Care-Planning Issues
21. Caregivers and Dementia
22. Pharmacotherapy: Primary Symptoms
23. Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of AD
24. Anti-Amyloid Strategies
25. Prevention Strategies

Index

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