The American Psychiatric Press textbook of geriatric neuropsychiatry /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
The Press,
[1994]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to geriatric neuropsychiatry
- Geriatric neuropsychiatry
- Epidemiology of aging
- Neurobiology of aging
- Neurobiological basis of behavior
- Neuropsychiatric assessment of the elderly
- Neuropsychiatric assessment
- Mental status examination
- Neuropsychological assessment
- Age-associated memory impairment
- Anatomic imaging of the aging human brain: computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging
- Functional neuroimaging: positron-emission tomography in the study of cerebral blood flow and glucose utilization in human subjects at different ages
- Quantitative electroencephalography: neurophysiological alterations in normal aging and geriatric neuropsychiatric disorders
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of psychiatric disorders in the elderly
- Mood disorders
- Late-life-onset psychoses
- Anxiety disorders
- Substance abuse
- Sleep disorders in late life: a biopsychosocial model for understanding pathogenesis and intervention
- Pain
- Delirium
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of neurological disease in the elderly
- Nondegenerative dementing disorders
- Alzheimer's disease and frontal lobe dementias
- Hyperkinetic movement disorders
- Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of neoplastic, demyelinating, infectious and inflammatory brain disorders
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of medical therapies
- Principles of neuropsychiatric treatment of the elderly
- Pharmacological and neuroendocrine probes in neuropsychiatric illness
- Geriatric neuropsychopharmacology
- Electroconvulsive therapy in geriatric neuropsychiatry
- Psychosocial therapies
- Neuropsychiatry in nursing homes