Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 December 2004
- ISBN 9780198508304
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages440 pages
- Size 248x174x28 mm
- Weight 888 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book describes the latest advances in our psychological understanding of Alzheimer's disease, bringing together the main experts in this field to describe recent developments. It will be valuable for people working in related disciplines, such as neurology, psychiatry and neuroscience researchers, as well as providing an introduction to the field for psychologists.
MoreLong description:
Alzheimer's disease can be thought of as a multi-faceted neuropsychological disorder, with diverse impairments in cognitive abilities, such as attention, memory, language and executive functioning. Over the last decade cognitive neuropsychology has provided a far richer understanding of these impairments, and this book describes these advances, placing them in their clinical context.
The first section deals with background theoretical and clinical issues, such as the extent to which Alzheimer's disease can be considered as a single entity or whether it is more fruitful to explore the neuropsychology of individual patients. It considers the diagnostic aspects of Alzheimer's disease, the natural history of the disease, how it progresses over time and the characteristics of the prodromal phase. A second section, the core of the book, covers major cognitive functions and delineates how impairments can be differentiated from each other. A third portion integrates what is known about cognitive decline with the underlying neurobiological basis, including pathological structural brain abnormality and neuropharmacological changes. The final section explores the clinical implications of the research with an overview of the neuropsychological assessment of this disease, cognitive approaches to management, and neurobiological treatment.
As an introduction to this field, The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease brings together the opinion of leading researchers in a book that will provide a useful source of information for neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists who wish to broaden their knowledge concerning this debilitating condition.
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Introduction
A cognitive neuropsychology of Alzheimer's disease
Section 2: Background issues
The single case study and Alzheimer's disease
Measuring impairment and charting decline in Alzheimer's disease
The natural history of Alzheimer's disease
Preclinical Alzheimer's disease: cognitive and memory functioning
Section 3: Neuropsychological functions
Attentional functioning in Alzheimer's disease
Executive functions in Alzheimer's disease
Information processing defects in episodic memory in Alzheimer's disease
Remote memory in Alzheimer's disease
Implicit memory in Alzheimer's disease: Priming and skill learning
Semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease
Language in Alzheimer's disease
Reading aloud and spelling in Alzheimer's disease
Calculation and number processing skills in Alzheimer's disease
Motor functioning
Cognition and emotion
Loss of 'awareness' in Alzheimer's disease
Section 4: Neurobiological correlates of cognitive dysfunction
Neurobiological changes in Alzheimer's disease: Structural, genetic and functional correlates of cognitive dysfunction
The cognitive psychopharmacology of Alzheimer's disease
Section 5: The treatment and management of Alzheimer's disease
The assessment of dementia
Cognitive methods for the management of dementia
Neurobiological approaches to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
