cover image - Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323795449
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 05-06-2021
Page Count: 336
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $94.99

Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, 3rd Edition

by Andrew E. Budson, MD and Paul R. Solomon, PhD

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cover image - Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323795449
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 05-06-2021
Page Count: 336
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $94.99
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    • Provides in-depth coverage of clinically useful diagnostic tests and the latest research findings and treatment approaches.

    • Incorporates real-world case studies that facilitate the management of both common and uncommon conditions.

    • Contains new chapters on Alzheimer’s look-alikes and posterior cortical atrophy.

    • Covers key topics such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, primary age-related tauopathy (PART) and limbic-predominant, age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), in addition to new criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies and posterior cortical atrophy.

    • Includes current National Institute on Aging–Alzheimer's Association and DSM-5 criteria for Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment.

    • Demonstrates how to use diagnostic tests such as the amyloid imaging scans florbetapir (Amyvid), flutemetamol (Vizamyl), and florbetaben (Neuraceq), which can display amyloid plaques in the living brains of patients, as well as the new tau scans.

    • Includes access to more than two dozen videos that illustrate common tests, clinical signs, and diagnostic features.

    • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

  • SECTION I: EVALUATING THE PATIENT WITH MEMORY LOSS

    1. Why Diagnose and Treat Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia?

    2. Evaluating the Patient with Memory Loss or Dementia

    3. Approach to the Patient with Memory Loss, Mild Cognitive Impairment, or Dementia

    SECTION II: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MEMORY LOSS

    4. Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease

    5. Alzheimer’s Look-Alikes: Primary Age-Related Tauopathy (PART) and Limbic-predominant, Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE)

    6. Dementia with Lewy Bodies (Including Parkinson’s Disease Dementia)

    7. Posterior Cortical Atrophy

    8. Vascular Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment

    9. Primary Progressive Aphasia & Other Disorders of Speech

    10. Frontotemporal Dementia

    11. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

    12. Corticobasal Degeneration

    13. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

    14. Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease

    15. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    16. Other Disorders That Disrupt Memory

    SECTION III: TREATMENT OF MEMORY LOSS

    17. Goals of Treatment of Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia

    18. Cholinesterase Inhibitors

    19. Memantine (Generic and Namenda XR)

    20. Vitamins, Herbs, Supplements, and Anti-Inflammatories

    21. Future Treatments of Memory Loss

    22. Physical exercise, Diet, Strategies, and Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Memory Loss

    SECTION IV: BEHAVIORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA

    23. Evaluating the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

    24. Caring For and Educating the Caregiver

    25. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

    26. Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

    SECTION V: ADDITIONAL ISSUES

    27. Life Adjustments

    28. Legal and Financial Issues

    29. Special Issues

    ONLINE ONLY APPENDICES

    APPENDIX A: Cognitive Test and Questionnaire Forms, Instructions, and Normative Data

    APPENDIX B: Screening for Memory Loss

    APPENDIX C: Our Current Understanding of Memory

  • Andrew E. Budson, MD, Chief, Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology and Associate Chief of Staff for Education, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System
    Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Newton, MA
    Newton
    U.S.A and Paul R. Solomon, PhD, Department of Psychology, Williams College
    Williamstown, MA, Newton, MA
    U.S.A.
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