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-A new edition of a highly respected and well known text, substantially revised to bring readers up to date with the very latest developments in this area
Provides an account of the manner in which Alzheimer's disease evolves from the prodromal phase onwards, showing the natural history of the disease
Integrates the research with the clinical context, enabling the reader to apply the knowledge to their management and treatment of people with Alzheimer's disease
New to this edition
Now covers the natural history of Alzheimer's disease, including the prodromal phase
The sections on cognitive functions are expanded to cover new topics such as calculation, remote memory, awareness and cognition and emotion
Thirteen of the 22 chapters are either new topics or have new authors. All other chapters have been extensively revised
All illustrations are new
Alzheimer's disease can be thought of as a multi-faceted neuropsychological disorder, with diverse impairments in cognitive abilities, such as attention, memory, language and executive functioning. Over the last decade cognitive neuropsychology has provided a far richer understanding of these impairments, and this book describes these advances, placing them in their clinical context.
The first section deals with background theoretical and clinical issues, such as the extent to which Alzheimer's disease can be considered as a single entity or whether it is more fruitful to explore the neuropsychology of individual patients. It considers the diagnostic aspects of Alzheimer's disease, the natural history of the disease, how it progresses over time and the characteristics of the prodromal phase. A second section, the core of the book, covers major cognitive functions and delineates how impairments can be differentiated from each other. A third portion integrates what is known about cognitive decline with the underlying neurobiological basis, including pathological structural brain abnormality and neuropharmacological changes. The final section explores the clinical implications of the research with an overview of the neuropsychological assessment of this disease, cognitive approaches to management, and neurobiological treatment.
As an introduction to this field, The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease brings together the opinion of leading researchers in a book that will provide a useful source of information for neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists who wish to broaden their knowledge concerning this debilitating condition.
Readership: Neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscience researchers.
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-Section 1: Introduction
1: Robin G. Morris & James T. Becker: A cognitive neuropsychology of Alzheimer's disease
Section 2: Background issues
2: Elaine Funnell: The single case study and Alzheimer's disease
3: Colin Gray & Sergio della Salla: Measuring impairment and charting decline in Alzheimer's disease
4: Oscar L. Lopez & James T. Becker: The natural history of Alzheimer's disease
5: Brent J. Small, Agneta Herlitz & Lars Backman: Preclinical Alzheimer's disease: cognitive and memory functioning
Section 3: Neuropsychological functions
6: Raja Parasuraman: Attentional functioning in Alzheimer's disease
7: Fabienne Collette & Martial van der Linden: Executive functions in Alzheimer's disease
8: Amy A. Overman & James T. Becker: Information processing defects in episodic memory in Alzheimer's disease
9: Peter Bright & Michael D. Kopelman: Remote memory in Alzheimer's disease
10: David P. Salmon & Christine Fennema-Notestine: Implicit memory in Alzheimer's disease: Priming and skill learning
11: Peter Garrard, Karalyn Patterson & John R. Hodges: Semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease
12: Andrew Kertesz: Language in Alzheimer's disease
13: Naida L. Graham & Karalyn Patterson: Reading aloud and spelling in Alzheimer's disease
14: Jane McNeil: Calculation and number processing skills in Alzheimer's disease
15: Daphne Kidron & Morris Freedman: Motor functioning
16: Deborah Zaitchik & Marilyn S. Albert: Cognition and emotion
17: Robin G. Morris & Kristin Hannesdottir: Loss of 'awareness' in Alzheimer's disease
Section 4: Neurobiological correlates of cognitive dysfunction
18: Robin G. Morris: Neurobiological changes in Alzheimer's disease: Structural, genetic and functional correlates of cognitive dysfunction
19: H. Valerie Curran, Michael D. Kopelman & Jennie M. Rusted: The cognitive psychopharmacology of Alzheimer's disease
Section 5: The treatment and management of Alzheimer's disease
20: Edgar Miller: The assessment of dementia
21: Jennie M. Rusted & Linda Clare: Cognitive methods for the management of dementia
22: Oscar L. Lopez & Sandra Bell: Neurobiological approaches to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
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