The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias

The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other
Dementias is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of dementia for
psychiatrists and other health care practitioners who deal with cognitively
impaired adults in outpatient, inpatient, and long-term care settings. With
content ranging from clinical guidance to basic research, it contains
information on nearly every subject related to dementing conditions or
illnesses-not only providing extensive coverage of clinical management issues
but also enabling a deeper understanding of the causes of dementia. Designed to
assist the practitioner faced with everyday dilemmas, from dosages of
antipsychotic drugs to legal and ethical issues, this textbook describes in
detail the most common conditions and diseases leading to dementia and covers
pharmacologic, behavioral, and environmental treatments. It also considers a
broader range of cognitive disorders and impairment in order to help
practitioners recognize and treat primary brain diseases and systemic disorders
affecting the brain before they reach the stage of dementia.

Building on
the editors' earlier work The Dementias: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research,
this new book expands on its scope, with nearly twice the number of
contributors-all clinicians or researchers at the vanguard of the field. New to
this edition are chapters on epidemiology, history of dementia, biomarkers for
Alzheimer disease, care of the late-stage dementia patient, prevention of
dementia, and chapters devoted to: Vascular cognitive impairment, emphasizing
the importance of early detection with development of appropriate treatments and
risk factor control Dementia with Lewy bodies and other synucleinopathies,
describing differences in cognitive profile between synucleinopathies and
Alzheimer disease Frontotemporal dementias, including behavioral and language
variants Traumatic brain injury, distinguishing between proximal and distal
effects and risk factors for dementia later in life

An abundance of
charts and illustrations, extensive references and additional readings, and
chapter-end key points make this a practical volume for learning, while
appendixes include easily administered instruments useful in daily practice for
grading cognition, day-to-day function, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and quality
of life. Whether used as a clinical guide or as a sourcebook on technical and
scientific developments, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of
Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias is an important reference for
psychiatrists, neurologists, geriatricians, primary care physicians, and other
health professionals who deal with cognitively impaired adults.