| Description |
xiii, 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
American Psychopathological Association |
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American Psychopathological Association series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Leonard L. Heston -- 1. Zubin Award Lecture: Emotional Disorders Associated With Dementing Illnesses / Paul R. McHugh -- 2. Is Alzheimer's Disease a Lifelong Illness? Risk Factors for Pathological and Clinical Disease / James A. Mortimer -- 3. Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias: Neuropathological Considerations / Suzanne S. Mirra -- 4. Multimodal In Vivo Brain Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease: Diagnosis, Characteristics, and Mechanisms / Stanley I. Rapoport -- 5. Hoch Award Lecture: Prion Biology and Diseases: Sporadic, Inherited, and Infectious Degenerative Illnesses of Humans and Animals / Stanley B. Prusiner -- 6. Clinical, Pathological, and Genetic Heterogeneity of Alzheimer's Disease / Marshal F. Folstein and Susan E. Folstein -- 7. Unstable Triplet Repeats in Neurological Disease: Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type I / Harry T. Orr and Huda Y. Zoghbi -- 8. What a Dementing Illness Is Doing to My Family / Denise Heinrichs -- 9. Genetic Testing for Neuropsychiatric Disease: Experiences From 8 Years of Genetic Testing for Huntington's Disease / Richard H. Myers, Catherine A. Taylor and Judith A. Sinsheimer -- 10. Depression in Alzheimer's Dementia / Benoit H. Mulsant, Bruce G. Pollock and Robert D. Nebes [et al.] -- 11. Presidential Address: The Future is Now (Provided We Recognize It) / Leonard L. Heston -- 12. Onset of Alzheimer's Disease: Influence of Genes and Environmental Factors, Including Anti-Inflammatory Drugs / John C. S. Breitner -- 13. From Gene to Phenotype: A Transgenic Model of Alzheimer's Disease / Barbara Cordell, Linda S. Higgins and Jeffrey Higaki [et al.] -- 14. Alzheimer's Disease and the Cholinergic System: An Introduction to Clinical Pharmacological Research / Paul A. Newhouse -- 15. The Spokane Elder Care Program: Community Outreach Methods and Results / Ray Raschko -- 16. Neurotransmitter Abnormalities and the Psychopharmacology of Alzheimer's Disease / Murray A. Raskind and Elaine R. Peskind -- 17. Effects of a Multicomponent Support Program on Spouse-Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: Results of a Treatment/Control Study / Mary S. Mittelman, Steven H. Ferris and Emma Shulman [et al.] -- 18. Caring for Persons With Dementing Illnesses: A Current Perspective / Peter V. Rabins |
| Notes |
On t.p.: American Psychopathological Association |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Alzheimer's disease.
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Senile dementia.
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Alzheimer Disease.
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Dementia.
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Alzheimer Disease.
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Dementia.
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| Author |
Heston, Leonard L.
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American Psychopathological Association.
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| LC no. |
96026156 |
| ISBN |
0880487607 |
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