Dementia and Normal Aging
Dementia and Normal Aging
Carol Brayne, University of Cambridge
Daniel W. O'Connor, Monash University, Victoria
Out of Print
This book reviews the latest scientific research and seeks to establish whether dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, is distinct from the normal aging process or on a continuum with normal aging. With contributions from leading neurobiologists, psychologists, clinicians, and epidemiologists, this volume makes a major advance in the understanding of dementia and the aging mind and brain. It also has wide implications for areas as diverse as dementia research strategy, treatment and prevention, social attitudes, and health policy.
- An essential review by experts of current thinking and research into dementia
- Challenging in breadth and level of argument
- Will stimulate enquiry and debate on a wide range of related issues, including care of the aged cases of dementia
Reviews & endorsements
"...The historical section is outstanding...The epidemiological, diagnostic, and neuropsychological sections are lucid and easily accessible to nonexperts, usually avoiding the jargon that sometimes plagues writing in these areas...a well-edited, intelligently written, and accessible book...strongly recommended." Bruce L. Miller, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
"...a rich and thorough discussion of many of the clinical, cognitive, and neuropathological characteristics of normal ageing and dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease...." Lancet
"...I enjoyed reading this well-produced book, written in an easy style, with its chapters following a logical pattern. I recommend it to the targeted audience of clinicians and scientific investigators." John deVries, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
"With contributions from leading neurobiologists, psychologists, clinicians, and epidemiologists, this book makes an important contribution to the understanding of these and other aspects of dementia....[T]his is a challenging work in its breadth and in the level of its argument, which has far-reaching implications for the study of dementia and, indeed, of the mind itself. As a review of current thinking and research, it will serve as an essential text for clinicians and scientific investigators, and it will also stimulate further inquiry and debate in areas as diverse as research strategy, treatment and prevention, social attitudes and health policy." Turning Pages
Product details
July 1994Hardback
9780521413930
589 pages
236 × 156 × 39 mm
1.183kg
62 b/w illus. 1 colour illus. 53 tables
Unavailable - out of print July 2008
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword E. S. Paykel
- Preface F. A. Huppert
- Acknowledgement
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. What is the relationship between dementia and normal aging? F. A. Huppert and C. Brayne
- Part II. The Development of Contemporary Views of Dementia:
- 2. Dementia and aging since the 19th century G. E. Berrios
- 3. The history of research into dementia and its relationship to current concepts W. A. Lishman
- 4. The relationship between normal aging of the brain and dementia Sir Martin Roth
- Part III. The Diagnosis of Dementia Today:
- 5. International criteria and differential diagnosis A. S. Henderson and N. Sartorius
- 6. Mild dementia: a clinical perspective D. W. O'Connor
- 7. Neurological aspects of dementia and normal aging J. R. Hodges
- 8. Imaging and dementia C. E. L. Freer
- Part IV. Research Methodology and Population Studies:
- 9. How common are cognitive impairment and dementia? An epidemiological viewpoint C. Brayne
- 10. What are the risk factors for dementia? J. A. Mortimer
- 11. How do risk factors for dementia relate to current theories on mechanisms of aging? T. B. L. Kirkwood
- 12. A method for measuring dementia as a continuum in community surveys A. F. Jorm
- Part V. Normal Ageing and Dementia During Life:
- 13. The meaning of dementia to those involved as carers P. A. Pollitt
- 14. Personality and behaviour in dementia and normal aging T. Hope
- 15. Memory function in dementia and normal aging - dimension of dichotomy? F. A. Huppert
- 16. Language function in dementia and normal aging D. Kempler and E. M. Zelinski
- 17. Visuospatial dysfunction in dementia and normal elderly J. V. Filoteo, D. C. Delis, P. J. Massman and N. Butters
- Part VI. Neurobiology of Normal Aging and Dementia:
- 18. Dementia and normal aging: neuropathology M. Esiri
- 19. Cholinergic component of aging and dementia E. K. Perry, J. A. Court, M. A. Piggott and R. H. Perry
- 20. Molecular characterization of the neurologenitive changes which distinguish normal aging from Alzheimer's disease C. Wischik, C. Harrington and E. B. Mukaetova-Ladinska
- 21. Genetic linkage in Alzheimer's disease S.-J. Richards and C. van Broeckhoven
- Part VII. Health Care and Social Policy Issues:
- 22. Health care policy and planning for dementia: an international perspective B. Cooper
- 23. Public health implications of a continuum of dementia K.-T. Khaw
- Index.
