Dementia: A Clinical Approach

1. Dementia: Significance, Definition, and Epidemiology 2. Mental Status Assessment 3. Diagnosis of Dementia 4. Alzheimer's Disease 5. Vascular Dementia 6. Frontotemporal Dementia and the Asymmetric Cortical Atrophies 7. Parkinsonian Disorders with Dementia 8. Non-Parkinsonian Motor Disorders with Dementia 9. Dementia from Conventional Infectious Agents 10. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Prion Disorders 11. Toxic-Matabolic Causes of Dementia 12. Psychiatric Dementias Associated with Psychiatric Disorders 13. Miscellaneous Dementia Syndromes 14. Pharmacotherapy of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias 15. Non-Pharmacologic Management of Dementia 16. Conclusions and Directions Index