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Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
About the Authors | p. xv |
Evaluating the Patient with Memory Loss | |
Why Diagnose and Treat? | p. 1 |
Evaluating the Patient with Memory Loss | p. 4 |
Differential Diagnosis of Memory Loss | |
Alzheimer's Disease | p. 43 |
Mild Cognitive Impairment | p. 71 |
Dementia with Lewy Bodies (Including Parkinson's Disease Dementia) | p. 79 |
Vascular Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment | p. 91 |
Frontotemporal Dementia | p. 104 |
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy | p. 118 |
Corticobasal Degeneration | p. 128 |
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus | p. 136 |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease | p. 143 |
Other Disorders | p. 148 |
Treatment of Memory Loss | |
Goals of Treatment | p. 163 |
Cholinesterase Inhibitors | p. 166 |
Memantine (Namenda) | p. 184 |
Vitamins, Herbs, Supplements, and Anti-Inflammatories | p. 193 |
Future Treatments of Memory Loss | p. 199 |
Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Memory Loss | p. 214 |
Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia | |
Evaluating the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia | p. 220 |
Caring for and Educating the Caregiver | p. 228 |
Non-Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia | p. 236 |
Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia | p. 247 |
Additional Issues | |
Life Adjustments | p. 259 |
Legal and Financial Issues | p. 266 |
Special Issues | p. 271 |
Case Studies | p. 275 |
Online Only Appendices: (See inside front cover for details) | |
Cognitive Test and Questionnaire Forms, Instructions, and Normative Data | |
Screening for Memory Loss | |
Our Current Understanding of Memory | |
Index | p. 289 |
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