Dementia
Subtitle: a clinical approach
By: Mario F. Mendez, Jeffrey L. Cummings.
Contributors: Cummings, Jeffrey L., 1948-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 654
Subjects: Dementia
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Dementia / Jeffrey L. Cummings, D. Frank Benson. 2nd ed. c1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Dementia: significance, definition, and epidemiology; title: Ch. 2. Mental status assessment; title: Ch. 3. Diagnosis of dementia; title: Ch. 4. Alzheimer's Disease; title: Ch. 5. Vascular dementia; title: Ch. 6. Frontotemporal dementia and the asymmetric cortical atrophies; title: Ch. 7. Parkinsonian Disorders with dementia; title: Ch. 8. Nonparkinsonian motor disorders with dementia; title: Ch. 9. Dementia from conventional infectious agents; title: Ch. 10. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and other prion disorders; title: Ch. 11. Toxic-metabolic causes of dementia; title: Ch. 12. Psychiatric dementias associated with psychiatric disorders; title: Ch. 13. Miscellaneous dementia syndromes; title: Ch. 14. Pharmacotherapy of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias; title: Ch. 15. Nonpharmacologic management of dementia; title: Ch. 16. Conclusions and directions.