Dementia

Springer, 2016. — 88 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-35100-1 This text approaches the care of dementia patients via the experience of a psychiatrist as well as a caregiver, offering a holistic approach to care that is unlike any other book in the market. Laced with her experiences from both her professional and personal life, Huffington Post columnist and psychiatrist Dr. Carol W. Berman...

Springer, 2016. — 96 p. — ISBN: 3319351001. This text approaches the care of dementia patients via the experience of a psychiatrist as well as a caregiver, offering a holistic approach to care that is unlike any other book in the market. Laced with her experiences from both her professional and personal life, Huffington Post columnist and psychiatrist Dr. Carol W. Berman aims...

Springer Singapore; Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 441 p. This book analyzes the social contexts in which programmers design neuroimaging software used in brain studies. It shows that in the same way, people engage in everyday communication, programmers are involved in a series of communicative processes to realize the negotiations and discussions generated by software...

Springer, 2016. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-18376-3 This book provides an overview of the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial context of dementia care. With its focus on patient and family perspectives, this book describes evidence-based approaches towards prevention, detection, and treatment of dementia that is like any other book. The text presents memory clinics, care...

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019. — 111 p. — ISBN: 9781785928130 Creative activities can support people with dementia, leading to moments of reconnection and joy. This book shows how the Montessori method - with its arts-based, person-centred and positive focus - can help caregivers connect to people with dementia. Drawing on 20 years of experience, Tom and Karen Brenner...

Oxford University Press, 2014. — 666 p. Dementia: Comprehensive Principles and Practice is a clinically-oriented book designed for clinicians, scientists, and other health professionals involved in the diagnosis, management, and investigation of disease states causing dementia. A "who's who" of internationally-recognized experts contribute chapters emphasizing a...

2nd edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. — 492 p. A comprehensive text on dementia care, drawn from research evidence, practice and the experience of people with dementia.

Elsevier, 2008. — 936 p. — (Handbook of Clinical Neurology 89). — ISBN13: 978-0444518989. This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the biology of dementias, including information on advancements in the way these disorders are perceived and studied. From earlier assumptions that cognitive deficits were simply age related, this handbook progresses into complex...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 220 p. Essential Background Knowledge. Overview. What Is Dementia? How Common Is Dementia? Diagnosis of Dementia and Dementia Subtypes. Similarities and differences between dementia/major neurocognitive disorder and mild cognitive impairment/minor neurocognitive disorder: DSM-V Toxic Agents. Different forms of dementia and...

New York: Springer, 1989. — 272 p. Memory and Aging: Theory and Assessment Modeling Memory Processes: Research and Theory on Memory and Aging Impairment in Normal Memory Aging: Implications of Laboratory Evidence Everyday Memory Problems of Healthy Older Adults: Characteristics of a Successful Intervention The Translation of laboratory Findings in Cognitive Aging to Clinical...

Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 292 p. A decade ago, oestrogen-containing hormone therapy was viewed as a promising strategy for the prevention and treatment of dementia and age-related cognitive decline. However, treatment trials in women with Alzheimer's disease showed that oestrogens did not reverse cognitive impairment, and clinical trials in healthy older women...

Oxford University Press, 2016. — 513 p. — (Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology). Normal cognitive function Historical aspects of neurology Functional specialization and network connectivity in brain function The frontal lobes The temporal lobes The parietal lobes The occipital lobes The basal ganglia in cognitive disorders Principles of white matter organization...

Wiley, 2000. — 144 p. This timely book reviews the current status of drug treatments in dementia, both in practice and in research. It commences with a brief overview of the dementia syndrome and provides guidance in making a diagnosis. It then focuses on treatment of the cognitive function, psychological and behavioural symptoms and co-existing diseases. Chapters devoted to...

4th edition. — Plural Publishing, 2024. — 569 p. — ISBN: 9781635505115. The fourth edition of Cognitive Communication Disorders is an essential text for graduate speech-language pathology courses on cognitively-based communication disorders. It provides vital information on the cognitive foundations of communication (attention, memory, and executive function). The book provides...

Springer Japan KK, 2017. — 233 p. — ISBN: 4431559469. This book describes biological and clinical aspects of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), one of the most common types of progressive dementia, although in most cases the cause is unknown. The editor has made a major contribution to the understanding of the disease since he first reported DLB in 1976. Written by renowned...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 212 p. Growth in the incidence of dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. As the burden of dementia in non-Western cultures grows, developing nations are expected to overtake developed nations in terms of dementia prevalence. Insights from developing nations and transcultural considerations are,...

Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 212 p. Growth in the incidence of dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. As the burden of dementia in non-Western cultures grows, developing nations are expected to overtake developed nations in terms of dementia prevalence. Insights from developing nations and transcultural considerations are, nevertheless,...

Springer, 2015. — 146 p. This book explains the key steps in planning and executing diagnostic test accuracy studies in dementia, with clear explanations of difficulties and pitfalls and with jargon clearly explained. The emphasis is on pragmatic diagnostic test accuracy studies which can be integrated into day-to-day clinical practice. The book is based on the author’s...

3rd edition. — Springer, 2018. — 347 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-75259-4 This expanded, updated third edition summarizes the pragmatic diagnostic accuracy studies of neurological signs and cognitive and non-cognitive screening instruments undertaken in the author’s clinic in the context of day-to-day practice involving patients with cognitive disorders including dementia. A new...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003. 440 p. "A comprehensive, multidisciplinary reference for diagnosing and treating dementia. The Handbook of Dementia offers a broad, interdisciplinary guide to understanding, diagnosing, and treating dementia and its related illnesses and conditions. In one volume, leading authorities provide insightful, specialized knowledge on the psychological,...

2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 487 p. This new edition of The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia provides clinicians and researchers with the latest research findings written by the leading dementia experts. With chapters ranging from cognitive evaluation to imaging, and genetics and pathology to treatment, the detailed clinical descriptions of diseases and...

2nd ed. — Cambridge, 2016. — 495 p. — ISBN10: 1107077206 This new edition of The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia provides clinicians and researchers with the latest research findings written by the leading dementia experts. With chapters ranging from cognitive evaluation to imaging, and genetics and pathology to treatment, the detailed clinical descriptions of diseases and...

New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. - 545 p. ISBN: 0824758382. An up-to-date survey of the major dementing disorders, this guide 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....

Springer, 2019. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-11267-7 Dementia, now known as major neurocognitive disorder, is not one monolithic disease. Nor is behavior disturbance driven by one particular neurocognitive dysfunction. In fact if we are able to understand it, behavior is an excellent form of nonverbal communication. There are many different causes of dementia. A major challenge...

Springer Publishing Company, 2014. — 468 p. This book provides an overview of the cognitive and behavioral profiles of the cortical dementias in a readable and clinically relevant manner. Its emphasis on disease entities primarily affecting cortical structures allows for a more comprehensive description of the latest insights into the pathogenesis and assessment of a number of...

Springer Science & Business Media, 2005. — 356 p. A multidisciplinary survey of our current understanding of the biological and clinical aspects of vascular disease. The authors describe its basic mechanisms, its clinical characteristics, its pharmacological management, and the use of neuroimaging methods to investigate it. The complex relationship between VaD and AD is also...

Second Edition. — Springer, 2018. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-61719-0. Neuropsychological testing in the field of psychiatry is now an established part of the mental health assessment process, arguably more so for the non-intellectually disabled population than for persons with intellectual disability (ID). In the past neuropsychological assessments of persons with ID usually...

Springer, 2000. — 345 p. This collection provides a comprehensive analysis of intervention approaches to dementia caregiving. It reviews the existing knowledge and provides a conceptual framework for organizing caregiver interventions of all types. Of special interest is the design of an intervention study for a culturally diverse community. The volume concludes with a...

Plural Publishing, Inc., 2020. — 205 p. — (Medical speech-language pathology Series). — ISBN: 9781635501605. Primary Progressive Aphasia and Other Frontotemporal Dementias: Diagnosis and Treatment of Associated Communication Disorders is the second volume in the "Medical Speech-Language Pathology" book series. It is intended to fill an unmet need to assist clinicians, students,...

Nova Science, 2014. — 102 p. A diagnosis of dementia can be frightening for those affected by the syndrome, their family members, and caretakers. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in those over the age of 65. As many as 5 million Americans age 65 and older may have AD, and that number is expected to double for every 5-year interval beyond age 65. But...