Memory Disorders in Clinical Practice

Author: Kapur   Narinder  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781483165233

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780407007123

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780407007123

Subject: R749.05 phrenotherapy

Language: ENG

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Description

Memory Disorders in Clinical Practice provides a comprehensive discussion of memory disorders, focusing on objective studies of memory disorder rather than simple clinical descriptions of memory impairment. The book is principally concerned with acquired neurological disorders, and so most congenital and psychiatric conditions are not covered in depth, although these are occasionally referred to where they relate to particular neurological problems.
The book begins with a discussion of memory assessment in clinical practice, covering the assessment of specific memory deficits and memory test batteries. This is followed by separate chapters on memory deficits caused by cerebrovascular disease, cerebral tumors, penetrating and blunt head injuries, dementia, infections of the central nervous system, chronic toxic or deficiency states, epilepsy, and ablation/disconnection of cerebral tissue. The book concludes with Appendices containing sources for materials which may be of use in designing memory tests for the assessment of neurological patients; and sources for information/materials relating to the remediation of memory disorders.

Chapter

Assessment of specific memory deficits

Memory test batteries

Chapter 2. Cerebrovascular disease

Arterially-defined lesions

Anatomically-defined lesions

Episodic cerebrovascular disturbance and related disorders

Management of memory deficits

Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with cerebrovasculardisease

Summary

Chapter 3. Cerebral tumours

Cortical tumours

Subcortical tumours

Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with cerebraltumours

Summary

Chapter 4. Penetrating head injury

Pre-traumatic and post-traumatic amnesia

Anterograde memory deficits

Retrograde memory deficits

Distinctive features of memory disorders in penetrating head injury

Summary

Chapter 5. Blunt head injury

Pre-traumatic and post-traumatic amnesia

Anterograde memory deficits

Rate of recovery of memory deficits

Management of memory deficits

Distinctive features of memory disorders in blunt head injury

Summary

Chapter 6. Degenerative, demyelinating and hydrocéphalie dementias

Primary degenerative dementia

Huntington^ disease

Parkinson's disease

Demyelinating disease

Other primary dementias

Hydrocéphalie dementia

Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with dementia

Summary

Chapter 7. Infectious, metabolic and related diseases

Infectious diseases

Metabolic diseases

Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with infectious andmetabolic diseases

Summary

Chapter 8. Toxic and deficiency states

Alcoholic Korsakoff s syndrome

Chronic alcoholic subjects

Other toxic conditions

Other deficiency states

Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with toxic anddeficiency states

Summary

Chapter 9. Epilepsy

Inter-ictal studies

Ictal studies

Distinctive features of memory disorders in patients with epilepsy

Summary

Chapter 10. Ablation/disconnection of cerebral tissue

Leucotomy

Commissurotomy

Selective cortical resection

Ablation of other limbic system and subcortical structures

Distinctive features of memory disorders after ablation/disconnection ofcerebral tissue

Summary

Appendix 1 Sources for materials which may be of use in designing memory testsfor the assessment of neurological patients

Appendix 2 Sources for information/materials relating to the remediation ofmemory disorders

References

Author index

Index

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