The American Psychiatric Press textbook of geriatric neuropsychiatry /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Coffey, C. Edward, 1952-, Cummings, Jeffrey L., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : The Press, [1994]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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