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- Describes care paths for each neurological disorder
- Provides practical information based on ICD-10
- Includes clinical pearls for each disease
- Promotes cost-effective care
- Integrates the latest guidelines and diagnostic criteria
This manual takes a multidisciplinary approach to neurological disorders in the elderly. Comprehensive and practical, it includes the most recent diagnostic criteria and immediately accessible visual care paths including the latest pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions. Covering a range of modalities, from the importance and impact of each disease to diagnostic criteria, genetics, laboratory and imaging findings, treatment and care paths, this book focuses on neurological conditions that occur commonly in older persons or which have a striking effect on their lives. The common types of dementias, Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, rapidly progressive diseases, seizure disorders and multiple sclerosis are covered. Issues commonly affecting this population, such as neurobehavioral symptoms and caregiver issues, are discussed. Neuro-Geriatrics: A Clinical Manual is aimed at any physician who treats the elderly with neurological disorders: neurologists, geriatricians and geriatric psychiatrists, both specialists and general practitioners. Table of Contents- Office Approach to Neurological Disorders in the Elderly
Po-Heng Tsai, Dennys Reyes Candedo - Neuropsychological Evaluation
Aaron Bonner-Jackson - Mild Cognitive Impairment and Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease
Jeffrey Cummings, Kate Zhong - Alzheimer’s Disease
Charles Bernick - Atypical Alzheimer’s Disease, Mixed Dementia, and Amyloid Angiopathy
Jeffrey Cummings - Acute Ischemic Stroke
Irene L. Katzan - Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Dementia
Aaron Ritter, Jagan A. Pillai - Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Kasia Gustaw Rothenberg, James B. Leverenz - Frontotemporal Dementia
Gabriel C. Léger - Parkinson’s Disease
Shnehal Patel, Sergio Ramirez, Joseph Rudolph, Hubert H. Fernandez - Atypical Parkinsonism
Brent Bluett - Clinical Assessment and Management of Suspected Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Ronan Factora, Mark Luciano - Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Sarah J. Banks - Prion Disorders
Ethan Gore, Brian S. Appleby - Neuromuscular Junction Disorders and Myopathies
Kathy Chuang, Mohammad Kian Salajegheh - Peripheral Neuropathy and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Nimish J. Thakore, Erik P. Pioro - Multiple Sclerosis
Le H. Hua - Epilepsy in the Elderly
Olesya Grinenko, Imad Najm - Sleep Disorders
Carlos L. Rodriguez, Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer - Office Approach to Neurological Disorders in the Elderly
Po-Heng Tsai, Dennys Reyes Candedo - Tremor
Rodger J. Elble - Geriatric Neurological Gait Disorders
Marian L. Dale, John G. Nutt - Delirium
Paula T. Trzepacz - Assessment and Management of Psychiatric Symptoms in Neurodegenerative Disorders
Kasia Gustaw Rothenberg - Pseudobulbar Affect
Jeffrey Cummings
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