Aging and Neuropsychological Assessment

1. Front Matter

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2. Normal Aging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Aging and Older Adults

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      Pages 3-23

   3. The Aging Brain

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      Pages 25-46

   4. Cognition in Normal Aging

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      Pages 47-77

   5. Neuropsychological Assessment Procedures

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      Pages 79-119

   6. Examples of Normal Performance

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      Pages 121-139

3. Common Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Delirium and Dementia

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      Pages 143-161

   3. Alzheimer’s Disease

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      Pages 163-197

   4. Parkinson’s Disease

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      Pages 199-220

   5. Vascular Dementia

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      Pages 221-237

   6. Dementia

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      Pages 239-257

   7. Depression

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      Pages 259-289

   8. Depression

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      Pages 291-303

4. Back Matter

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It is a privilege to be asked to write the foreword for so excellent a book, so timely and so much needed by the field. Not only is it most unusual these days to have a single­ authored volume on so broad a topic, but Dr. La Rue has done a superb job of providing both a scholarly treatise and a practical handbook. With a burgeoning elderly population and the corresponding increase in geriatric psychopathology, the needs of mental health services are exceeding by far the supply of appropriate providers. In an effort to meet this need, psychiatry, medicine, neurology, pharmacology, psychology, nursing, and social work have all made the provision of training in geriatrics and gerontology a high priority-but I fear we are losing the race. For example, multidisciplinary teams that assess, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders in elderly patients are incomplete without clinical psychologists and neuropsy­ chologists, and yet there is barely a handful of clinical psychologists trained in dealing with geriatric patients. We can count on our fingers the additional ones graduated each year. In hospitals, clinics, and private practices across the country, otherwise skilled psychologists are unprepared to respond to the special mental health needs of the elderly. A few CME programs are helping to address this need, but they are clearly not enough.

• Alzheimer
• Depression
• Parkinson
• assessment
• dementia
• psychiatric disorder

• University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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