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- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note
- Chapter 1 Healthy Ageing
- Chapter 2 Clinical Assessment
- Chapter 3 Cognitive Assessment
- Chapter 4 Imaging
- Chapter 5 Delirium
- Chapter 6 Alzheimer’s Disease
- Chapter 7 Vascular Dementia
- Chapter 8 Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Chapter 9 Frontotemporal Dementia
- Chapter 10 Depression
- Chapter 11 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 12 Psychosis
- Chapter 13 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 14 Drug and Alcohol Misuse
- Chapter 15 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Chapter 16 Medications
- Chapter 17 Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurostimulation
- Chapter 18 Psychological Therapies
- Chapter 19 Role of an Old Age Psychiatrist
- Chapter 20 Consultation-Liaison
- Chapter 21 Palliative Care
- Chapter 22 Care Homes
- Chapter 23 Carers
- Chapter 24 Law, Capacity and Ethics
- Chapter 25 Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Chapter 26 Clinical Scenarios
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - Imaging
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note
- Chapter 1 Healthy Ageing
- Chapter 2 Clinical Assessment
- Chapter 3 Cognitive Assessment
- Chapter 4 Imaging
- Chapter 5 Delirium
- Chapter 6 Alzheimer’s Disease
- Chapter 7 Vascular Dementia
- Chapter 8 Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Chapter 9 Frontotemporal Dementia
- Chapter 10 Depression
- Chapter 11 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 12 Psychosis
- Chapter 13 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 14 Drug and Alcohol Misuse
- Chapter 15 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Chapter 16 Medications
- Chapter 17 Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurostimulation
- Chapter 18 Psychological Therapies
- Chapter 19 Role of an Old Age Psychiatrist
- Chapter 20 Consultation-Liaison
- Chapter 21 Palliative Care
- Chapter 22 Care Homes
- Chapter 23 Carers
- Chapter 24 Law, Capacity and Ethics
- Chapter 25 Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Chapter 26 Clinical Scenarios
- Index
- References
Summary
Exactly 21 years have passed since John Besson’s chapter ‘Imaging’ in the previous edition of these seminars. There has been an amazing proliferation of imaging methods, but very little change in the clinical imaging protocols available to the average UK clinician. X-ray computed tomography (CT) still seems to be the mainstay of assessment in the standard psychiatric memory clinic. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tends to be available, but only as a ‘special treat’, often mediated by neurologists, and emission tomography, such as single photon emission computerised tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET), is only used in highly specialised cases outside a few academic centres. Apart from generic NHS austerity, ‘health without mental health’, and institutional ageism, what could be the reasons for this?
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- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry , pp. 41 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019