Alzheimer's disease & related disorders Annual 2004

Advances in the early detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease continue to appear in the literature and are announced at various dementia meetings. What Serge Gauthier and Jeffrey Cummings, along with their new editor Philip Scheltens, have done is to choose eleven topics that they believe are of interest to all physicians who work with Alzheimer patients. The topics are at the cutting edge of research and are readily applicable to one's clinical practice. Like the two previous volumes, this year's volume provides the reader with data dealing with white matter lesions to senile plaques, classifications to rehabilitation, ethics to prevention. Eleven new chapters that should benefit not only the physician but also, we hope, the patient.

Innervation of Senile Plaques: A Link Between Amyloid and Neurofibrillary Pathology? Vascular Factors and Alzheimer's Disease. The Role of White Matter Lesions in Dementia. Subclassification of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Research and Clinical Practice. Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Cognitive Rehabilitation in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease. Clinical Trial Design in the Age of Dementia Treatments: Challenges and Opportunities. Ethics of Research in Dementia. Memantine: A Glutamate Antagonist for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Management of Comorbidity in Alzheimer's Disease. Nutritional Prevention in Alzheimer's Disease.