The neuropathology of dementia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Esiri, Margaret M., Lee, V. M.-Y. (Virginia M.-Y.), Trojanowski, John Q.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2004]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Definition, clinical features and neuroanatomical basis of dementia
  • Important anatomical landmarks in the brain in dementia
  • Practical approach to pathological diagnosis
  • Morphometric methods and dementia
  • Safety precautions in laboratories involved with demantia diagnosis and research
  • Molecular diagnosis of dementia
  • Neuropathology of the ageing brain
  • Neuroimaging Alzheimer's disease
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease
  • Sporadic tauopathies : Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and argyrophilic grain disease
  • Hereditary tauopathies and idiopathic frontotemporal dementias
  • Vascular dementias
  • Familial and sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathies associated with dementia and the BRI dementias
  • Parkinson's disease, dementia with lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy and the spectum of disease with a-synuclein inclusions
  • Huntington's disease
  • Human prion diseases
  • Alcoholism and dementia
  • Hydrocephalus and dementia
  • Head injury and dementia
  • Infectious ( and inflammatory ) diseases causing dementia
  • Schizophrenia and its dementia
  • Other disease that cause dementia
  • Transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative disease