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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
SECTION II: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MEMORY LOSS
3. Approach to the Patient with Memory Loss, Mild Cognitive Impairment, or Dementia
4. Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease
5. Dementia with Lewy Bodies (Including Parkinson’s Disease Dementia)
6. Vascular Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment
7. Primary Progressive Aphasia & Other Disorders of Speech
8. Frontotemporal Dementia
9. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
10. Corticobasal Degeneration
11. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
12. Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease
13. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
14. Other Disorders That Disrupt Memory
SECTION III: TREATMENT OF MEMORY LOSS
15. Goals of Treatment of Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia
16. Cholinesterase Inhibitors
17. Memantine (Generic and Namenda XR)
18. Vitamins, Herbs, Supplements, and Anti-Inflammatories
19. Future Treatments of Memory Loss
20. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Memory Loss
SECTION IV: BEHAVIORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA
21. Evaluating the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
22. Caring For and Educating the Caregiver
23. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
24. Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
SECTION V: ADDITIONAL ISSUES
25. Life Adjustments
26. Legal and Financial Issues
27. 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
Access in-depth coverage of clinically useful diagnostic tests and the latest treatment approaches.
Case studies have been incorporated into the chapters and facilitate the management of both common and uncommon conditions.
