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New Directions in Understanding Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

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Editors:
  1. Taher Zandi

    1. Northeastern New York Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, SUNY, Plattsburgh, USA

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  2. Richard J. Ham

    1. Central New York Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 282)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. A Medical Agenda: Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Alzheimer’s Disease and the Family: A Challenge of the New Millennium

      • Richard J. Ham
      Pages 3-20

    3. In Search of the Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease

      • John A. Edwards
      Pages 21-29

    4. Alzheimer’s Disease: Theories of Causation

      • Walter G. Bradley
      Pages 31-38

    5. The Reversible Dementias: Do They Reverse?

      • A. Mark Clarfield
      Pages 39-58

    6. The Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Robert A. Murden
      Pages 59-64

    7. Cholinergic Drug Studies in Dementia and Depression

      • Paul A. Newhouse
      Pages 65-76

  3. Cognitive and Language Evaluations of Dementia Patients

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Verbal Communication Impairment in Dementia Research Frontiers in Language and Cognition

      • Raymond A. Domenico
      Pages 79-88

    3. Changes in Memory Processes of Dementia Patients

      • Taher Zandi
      Pages 89-100

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 149-161
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About this book

The management of Alzheimer's Disease and the related dementias is one of the major challenges to health care professionals and American society-at-large for the coming decade and the coming millennium. The rapid growth of the over-eighty-five population, the group which, as recent studies have confirmed and as many of us clinicians have long suspected, has an even higher prevalence than previously quoted of dementing disorders, is the major cause of this. We are thus challenged by, as Bernard Issacs used to call it, "the survival of the unfittest," as well as the oPtimistic approach of "bringing life to years," as John F. Kennedy said. The fact is that we, as a society, tend to confuse "treatment" and "cure" (and "prevention"). As the proceedings of the conference which this book represents emphasize, there is considerable work going on about the potential prevention of, or at least the reduction of, symptomatology in these illnesses by interventions genetically, chemIcally, and so forth. However, the more we find out, the more complicated it becomes, and the more heterogeneous Alzheimer's and the related disorders appear to be, not only in their manifestations (as clinicians have long recognized) but also in the individual initiating and underlying processes. For these reasons, absolute preventive techniques or the likelihood of an intervention which will reverse the process in a high proportion of patients, do not appear to be just around the corner.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Northeastern New York Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, SUNY, Plattsburgh, USA

    Taher Zandi

  • Central New York Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, USA

    Richard J. Ham

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Directions in Understanding Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Editors: Taher Zandi, Richard J. Ham

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0665-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7917-4Published: 05 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0665-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 174

  • Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology, Neurosciences, Neuropsychology

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