Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Preface to second edition
- 1 Definition, clinical features and neuroanatomical basis of dementia
- 2 Important anatomical landmarks in the brain in dementia
- 3 Practical approach to pathological diagnosis
- 4 Morphometric methods and dementia
- 5 Safety precautions in laboratories involved with dementia diagnosis and research
- 6 Molecular diagnosis of dementia
- 7 Neuropathology of the ageing brain
- 8 Neuroimaging Alzheimer's disease
- 9 Alzheimer's disease
- 10 Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease
- 11 Sporadic tauopathies: Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and argyrophilic grain disease
- 12 Hereditary tauopathies and idiopathic frontotemporal dementias
- 13 Vascular dementias
- 14 Familial and sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathies associated with dementia and the BRI dementias
- 15 Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy and the spectrum of diseases with α-synuclein inclusions
- 16 Huntington's disease
- 17 Human prion diseases
- 18 Alcoholism and dementia
- 19 Hydrocephalus and dementia
- 20 Head injury and dementia
- 21 Infectious (and inflammatory) diseases causing dementia
- 22 Schizophrenia and its dementia
- 23 Other diseases that cause dementia
- 24 Transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative disease
- Appendix: Dementia brain banks
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Preface to second edition
- 1 Definition, clinical features and neuroanatomical basis of dementia
- 2 Important anatomical landmarks in the brain in dementia
- 3 Practical approach to pathological diagnosis
- 4 Morphometric methods and dementia
- 5 Safety precautions in laboratories involved with dementia diagnosis and research
- 6 Molecular diagnosis of dementia
- 7 Neuropathology of the ageing brain
- 8 Neuroimaging Alzheimer's disease
- 9 Alzheimer's disease
- 10 Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease
- 11 Sporadic tauopathies: Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and argyrophilic grain disease
- 12 Hereditary tauopathies and idiopathic frontotemporal dementias
- 13 Vascular dementias
- 14 Familial and sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathies associated with dementia and the BRI dementias
- 15 Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy and the spectrum of diseases with α-synuclein inclusions
- 16 Huntington's disease
- 17 Human prion diseases
- 18 Alcoholism and dementia
- 19 Hydrocephalus and dementia
- 20 Head injury and dementia
- 21 Infectious (and inflammatory) diseases causing dementia
- 22 Schizophrenia and its dementia
- 23 Other diseases that cause dementia
- 24 Transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative disease
- Appendix: Dementia brain banks
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Neuropathology of Dementia , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004