Dementia: Presentations, Differential Diagnosis, and Nosology Book

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Background, Concepts, and Diagnostics	1
1	Boundaries Between Normal Aging and Dementia	3
2	The Dementias: Construct and Nosologic Validity	19
3	Diagnostic Procedures for Dementia	46
II	Alzheimer Dementias	77
4	Alzheimer Dementia Neuropathology	79
5	Clinical Subgroups of Alzheimer Disease	95
6	Progressive Aphasia and Other Focal Presentations of Alzheimer Disease, Pick Disease, and Other Degenerative Disorders	108
7	Language Deterioration in Dementia	123
III	Vascular Dementias and SubcorticaI Dementias	139
8	Cortical and Subcortical Dementias: Differential Diagnosis	141
9	Vascular Dementia Redefined	162
10	The Relation of Hypertension to Vascular Dementia	195
11	Alzheimer Disease and Vascular Dementia: Differential Diagnosis	208
12	Some Comparisons of the Verbal Learning Deficits in Alzheimer Dementia, Huntington Disease, and Depression	232
IV	Depressive Dementia	249
13	The Spectrum of Depressive Dementia	251
14	The Nondepressive Pseudodementias	277
15	The Interaction of Memory and Language in Depressive Dementia	298
16	Depressive Dementia: Cognitive and Biologic Correlates and the Course of Illness	321
17	Clinical, Neuropathologic, and Neurochemical Correlates of Depression and Psychosis in Primary Dementia	336
V	Conclusions and Future Directions	353
18	Approaches to the Treatment of Dementing Illness	355
19	The Spectra of Dementia	384
	Index	409