Cognitive assessment for clinicians

1. Distributed Cognitive Functions -- A General Theoretical Framework i Arousal and Attention -- Memory -- Higher-Order Cognitive Function, Personality, and Behaviour -- 2. Delirium and Dementia -- Introduction -- Delirium -- Dementia -- Differential Diagnosis of Delirium and Dementia -- 3. Localized Cognitive Functions -- Introduction -- Language -- Disorders of Reading: The Dyslexias -- Disorders of Writing: The Dysgraphias -- Syndromes of Calculating Impairment -- Disorders of Praxis: The Apraxias -- Damage to Specialized Right Hemisphere Functions -- Achromatopsia, Colour Agnosia, and Colour Anomia -- 4. Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric History Taking and Tips on Physical Examination -- The Patient Interview -- The Informant Interview -- Family History -- Past Medical History -- Alcohol Intake -- Tips on Physical Examination -- 5. Testing Cognitive Function at the Bedside -- Introduction -- General Observations -- Orientation and Attention.
Episodic Memory -- Semantic Memory -- Frontal Executive Functions -- Dominant (Left) Hemisphere Functions -- Right Hemisphere Functions -- 6. Standardized Mental Test Schedules: Their Uses and Abuses -- Introduction -- Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) -- Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) -- Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) -- Cambridge Cognitive Examination -- Revised (CAMCOG-R) -- Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS) -- 7. The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination: Revised and Supplementary Test Suggestions -- Introduction -- Normative Data -- Additional Material for Particular Cases -- 8. Illustrative Cases -- Introduction -- Case 1 Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) -- Case 2 Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease -- Case 3 Moderate Alzheimer's Disease -- Case 4 Depressive Pseudodementia -- Case 5 Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia -- Case 6 Progressive Non-Fluent Aphasia (PNFA) -- Case 7 Logopenic Progressive Aphasia (LPA).
Case 8 Semantic Dementia -- Case 9 Progressive Prosopagnosia and Personality Change (Right Temporal Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia) -- Case 10 Corticobasal Degeneration -- Case 11 Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) -- Case 12 Dementia with Lewy Bodies -- Case 13 Visual Variant of Alzheimer's Disease (Posterior Cortical Atrophy) -- Case 14 Huntington's Disease -- Case 15 Amnestic Stroke: Bilateral Thalamic Infarction -- Case 16 Transient Epileptic Amnesia (TEA).

The updated third edition of 'Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians' is a theoretically-motivated guide to the assessment of patients with cognitive complaints.