Early detection of Alzheimer's disease : a neuropsychological approach / Eva Dierckx ; cover photograph, Hans-Ulrich Osterwalder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dierckx, Eva.

Contributor:

Osterwalder, Hans-Ulrich.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alzheimer's disease--Physiological aspects.

Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease--Diagnosis.

Clinical neuropsychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brussels, Belgium : VUBPress, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Compelling and in-depth, this study aims to identify if neuropsychological test instruments can be used both to make an early differentiation between mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) and depression among the elderly and to predict which Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) patients will convert to AD. Despite considerable progress with regard to the diagnostic work-up of dementia, this volume further explores the important challenge of discriminating early dementia from depression on clinical and neuropsychological grounds. It also examines similar cognitive and affective problems in both mild AD and depressive pseudodementia.

Contents:

""Front ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""Chapter 0: General introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Use of neuropsychological test procedures to distinguish dementia from depression among elderly""; ""Chapter 2: The 10-word learning task in the differential diagnosis of early Alzheimer�s disease and elderly depression""; ""Chapter 3: Differentiation between Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer�s disease and depression by means of cued recall""

""Chapter 4: Differentiation between dementia and depression among older persons: Can the difference between actual and premorbid intelligence be useful?""""Chapter 5: Summary: Which neuropsychological test instruments are useful in the early differentiation between Alzheimer�s disease and depression?""; ""Chapter 6: Mild Cognitive Impairment: What�s in a name?""; ""Chapter 7: Verbal cued recall as a predictor of conversion to Alzheimer�s disease in mild cognitive impairment""; ""Chapter 8: Summary of main findings, methodological considerations and suggestions for further research""

""Some words of thanks""""APPENDIX: General summary""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 30, 2013).

OCLC:

922966421