Neuropsychology of dementia
Definition of dementia
Some prominent degenerative disorders
Other prominent causes
Alzheimer's dementia (AD)
Alzheimer's dementia is extremely common
Compare central sulcus of Alzheimer's patient with normal 81 year old woman
Atrophic hippocampus in AD
Whole brain MRI slices
74 year old AD patient: reduced blood flow on SPECT in temporal areas
Pick's disease
Case history: Pick's Disease This 59 year old woman had a three year history of a progressive alteration in social behavior which included apathy and occasional disinhibition. Images reveal severe focal shrinkage of temporal and frontal lobes bilaterally.
Degeneration of the basal ganglia
Basal ganglia
PPT Slide
Multi-infarct dementia (MID)
Vascular Dementia MRI slices
Viral dementia: HIV
Aids dementia MRI
Wernicke-Korsakoff disease
Drug treatment in Alzheimer's disease
Dementia patients are very sensitive to additional disabilities
Final remarks on dementia
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