痴呆症:释疑Dementia

分類: 图书,进口原版书,医学 Medicine ,
作者: Jeremy M. Brown 著
出 版 社: Oversea Publishing House
出版时间: 2003-12-1字数:版次: 1页数: 276印刷时间: 2003/12/01开本: 大32开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780443072666包装: 平装内容简介
This book, written in the popular Q and A format of the YQA series will provide sufficient information for a primary care doctor to be able to understand and treat patients who have dementia.
Uses a question-and-answer format to facilitate reference.
Covers both common and uncommon clinical issues.
Lists useful web sites, associations, and patient resource.
Answers questions frequently asked by patients and their families.
目录
Preface
How to use this book
1 What is dementia?
2 The assessment of dementia
3 Psychiatric symptoms and behavioural changes in dementia
4 Reversible causes of dementia
5 Non-pharmacological management of dementia
6 Drug treatments in dementia
7 Services for people with dementia
8 Problems faced by carers and their families
9 Dementia, ethics and the law
10 Alzheimer's disease
11 Vascular dementia
12 Frontotemporal dementia
13 Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and dementia
14 Dementia and other neurological diseases
15 Dementia and alcohol
16 Human prion diseases
Glossary
Appendix 1: The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE)
Appendix 2: Drugs used in the treatment of dementia
Appendix 3: Organizations for professionals, sufferers and carers
Appendix 4: Selected references and further reading
List of patient questions
Index