| Description |
x, 404 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
1. Overview of dementing disorders / William R. Markesbery -- 2. Neuroimaging of dementing disorders / William J. Jagust -- 3. Aging in the central nervous system / Dennis W. Dickson -- 4. Alzheimer's disease: clinical features, diagnosis and epidemiology / Peter Schofield and Richard Mayeux -- 5. Genetics of Alzheimer's disease / Peter H. St. George-Hyslop -- 6. Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease and animal models / Donald L. Price, Gopal Thinakaran and David R. Borchelt [et al.] -- 7. Pick's disease / William R. Markesbery -- 8. Frontal lobe degeneration of the non-Alzheimer type and dementia in motor neuron disease / Arne Brun and Lars Gustafson -- 9. Chromosome 17-linked dementias / Kirk C. Wilhelmsen and Lorraine N. Clark -- 10. Dementia with Lewy bodies / Graham G. Lennox and James S. Lowe -- 11. Progressive supranuclear palsy / Jean-Jacques Hauw, Marc Verny and Merle Ruberg [et al.] -- 12. Huntington's disease / Neil W. Kowall and Robert J. Ferrante |
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13. Corticobasal degeneration / Tamas Revesz and Susan E. Daniel -- 14. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam / Daniel P. Perl -- 15. Vascular dementia / William R. Markesbery -- 16. Virus-mediated dementias / Cristian L. Achim and Clayton A. Wiley -- 17. Prion diseases / Stephen J. DeArmond and Stanley B. Prusiner -- 18. Nutritional and metabolic disorders causing dementia / Sydney S. Schochet, Jr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Dementia -- Pathophysiology.
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Dementia -- physiopathology.
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| Author |
Markesbery, William R., 1932-
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| LC no. |
97009715 |
| ISBN |
0340590378 |
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