Case Studies in Dementia: Common and Uncommon Presentations

ISBN-13: 9781316638057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str.

Serge Gauthier; Pedro Rosa-Neto

Opis

A clinically useful selection of cases that illustrate the causes and current treatments of cognitive decline in aging.

Spis treści

1. A young missionary with problems for quoting the Bible; 2. Care planning and decision making through the stages of dementia; 3. What is typical and atypical in dementia?; 4. Elderly man repeating questions about upcoming appointments; 5. A devoted wife with an atypical finding; 6. A challenging thesis; 7. A 59 year-old dysexecutive clerk; 8. FTD – behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; 9. A 59 year-old man with weakness and personality changes; 10. A woman with progressive episodic memory loss and personality change; 11. A man with progressive memory loss and a strong family history of progressive dementia; 12. Long day's journey into night: when the pre-symptomatic phase evolves into manifest disease; 13. Right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia; 14. I'm having trouble working with my spreadsheets; 15. Speechless at first sight; 16. De novo artistic talent in a patient with progressive speech problems; 17. From stuttering to mutism: speech and language deterioration in neurodegenerative disease; 18. Primary progressive aphasia: logopenic progressive aphasia; 19. Alexia without agraphia in a patient with pathologically identified Pick's disease; 20. A meaningless world; 21. Obsessive mandala drawing in semantic dementia; 22. Forced into retirement; 23. Who are these people in my living room?; 24. This case of Parkinsonism that never had a good response to Levodopa; 25. Common complaints: rare pathology; 26. Tremor, hallucinations and cognitive decline; 27. Acute behavioral changes with cognitive impairment; 28. Vascular cognitive impairment; 29. Rapidly progressive behavioral changes and cognitive symptoms in a 29-year-old woman; 30. Hashimoto's encephalopathy as treatable dementia; 31. Hydrocephalus and CSF-related dementia; 32. Something very wrong happened very fast; 33. Siblings with a fatal cause of rapidly progressive dementia; 34. Young women with bipolar disorder history.