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Mild cognitive impairment and dementia : definitions, diagnosis, and treatment [E-Book]

By: Contributor(s): Series: Oxford workshop seriesPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 403 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199909155
  • 0199909156
  • 1299940315
  • 9781299940314
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • 2013 D-725
  • WT 155
  • WT 155
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: terminology for the continuum from normal cognitive aging to dementia -- Role of neuropsychological measurement in MCI and dementia assessment -- Normal cognitive aging -- Mild cognitive impairment -- Alzheimer's disease -- Vascular dementia -- Dementia with lewy bodies / with guest author Tanis J. Ferman -- Frontotemporal dementias -- Atypical dementias / with David P. Salmon -- Interventions for the behavioral disturbances of dementia.
Summary: In 2011, National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association joint task forces released proposed criteria for Alzheimer' disease diagnosis. These proposals included revisions to the nearly 30-year-old NINDS-ADRDA criteria for Alzheimer's diagnosis and added criteria for diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's disease. The same year the American Psychiatric Association proposed new criteria for major and minor neurocognitive disorders (the entities previously known as dementia and mild cognitive impairment, respectively). These new criteria reflect the research and c.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: terminology for the continuum from normal cognitive aging to dementia -- Role of neuropsychological measurement in MCI and dementia assessment -- Normal cognitive aging -- Mild cognitive impairment -- Alzheimer's disease -- Vascular dementia -- Dementia with lewy bodies / with guest author Tanis J. Ferman -- Frontotemporal dementias -- Atypical dementias / with David P. Salmon -- Interventions for the behavioral disturbances of dementia.

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In 2011, National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association joint task forces released proposed criteria for Alzheimer' disease diagnosis. These proposals included revisions to the nearly 30-year-old NINDS-ADRDA criteria for Alzheimer's diagnosis and added criteria for diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's disease. The same year the American Psychiatric Association proposed new criteria for major and minor neurocognitive disorders (the entities previously known as dementia and mild cognitive impairment, respectively). These new criteria reflect the research and c.

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