Dementia is defined from perspectives of cognitive decrement, functional impairment, and neuropathology. With the "graying" of the U.S. population, the syndrome is being seen with increasing frequency. The different types of dementia have various causes, and it can be difficult for clinicians to distinguish among these disorders.
In Dementia: Presentations, Differential Diagnosis, and Nosology, V. Olga B. Emery, Ph.D., and Thomas E. Oxman, M.D., bring together a group of medical authorities--including many who have done seminal research in this field--to discuss dementing disorders and explain their differential diagnosis. All the chapters present data from historical and current literature as well as from the authors' clinical experiences. Current classification systems are evaluated and modified to better account for common presentations of dementia.
Presenting the viewpoints of many of the leading figures in a field that is becoming of increasing interest to the U.S. medical community, Dementia: Presentations, Differential Diagnosis, and Nosology provides much information that has not previously been available. It will be of interest to geriatricians, gerontologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and neurologists.
