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Diagnosis and Treatment of Senile Dementia

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Manfred Bergener

    1. Rheinische Landesklinik Köln, Köln 91, Germany

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  2. Barry Reisberg

    1. NYU Medical Center, New York, USA

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. The Future of Psychogeriatrics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Future of Psychogeriatrics: A Multidisciplinary Approach with Applications for Clinical Practice

      • M. Bergener
      Pages 3-13

  3. An Overview: Current Knowledge and Needs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. What is New and what is Necessary in Dementia Research?

      • C. A. Shamoian
      Pages 17-20

  4. Epidemiology of Dementia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Epidemiological Study on Age-Associated Dementia in Japan

      • K. Hasegawa, Y. Imai
      Pages 23-32

    3. Risk Factors for Dementia: A Review of Hypotheses and Current Epidemiological Evidence

      • M. R. Eastwood, S. L. Rifat
      Pages 33-42

  5. Neuropathologic and Neurochemical Aspects of Dementia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Alzheimer’s Disease — Histopathological, Neurochemical and Molecular Biological Aspects

      • A. Nordberg, A. Adem, R. Adolfsson, I. Alafuzoff, N. Långström, L. Nilsson-Håkansson et al.
      Pages 45-53

    3. Neurochemistry of Dementia: Clinical Pathological Relationships

      • P. J. Whitehouse, J. R. Unnerstall, M. Tabaton, D. J. Lanska
      Pages 54-59

  6. Differential Diagnosis of Dementia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Depression Versus Dementia: Further Evidence from the Liverpool Outcome Studies

      • J. R. M. Copelland, I. A. Davidson, C. D. Neal, M. E. Dewey, C. McWilliam
      Pages 63-71

    3. Age-Associated Memory Impairment, Benign Forgetfulness and Dementia

      • S. H. Ferris, C. Flicker, B. Reisberg, T. Crook
      Pages 72-82

    4. Current Problems in the Clinical Diagnosis of Vascular Dementia

      • G. Bono, A. Martelli, P. Merlo, M. Mauri, E. Sinforiani, G. Nappi
      Pages 83-89

    5. Affective Disorders in Elderly and Dementing Patients

      • M. A. Jenike
      Pages 90-125
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About this book

Senile dementia is one of the major health problems confronting mankind in this century. To some extent the problem has, of course, always existed. The condition was sufficiently troubling to classical philosophers and jurists to have apparently provoked comments by Solon in approximately 500 B. C. and Plato in the fourth century B. C. (Plutarch 1967 translation; Plato 1921 translation). Medical recognition can be traced at least as far back as the second century A. D. (Adams 1861). However, several factors have converged in this century to extend the absolute dimensions of the problem of senile dementia and to increase societal, medical, and scientific recogni­ tion of the magnitude of the condition. Perhaps the most important factor relating to the present importance of senile dementia is demographic. Although the human population has been increasing since the mid-eighteenth century, it has only been since the advent of the twentieth century that a decrease in mortality has been noted for those over the age of 45 (McKeown 1976). Consequently, the absolute number of aged persons and the proportion of increasingly aged persons in the populations of the world's industrial nations have been steadily increasing. For example, in the United States, 4% ofthe population was over the age of 65 in 1900. In the 1970 census, this proportion had grown to 10%.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rheinische Landesklinik Köln, Köln 91, Germany

    Manfred Bergener

  • NYU Medical Center, New York, USA

    Barry Reisberg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diagnosis and Treatment of Senile Dementia

  • Editors: Manfred Bergener, Barry Reisberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46658-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-50800-7Published: 31 May 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-46658-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 396

  • Topics: Neurology, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry

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