Table of Contents

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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"This is a highly readable volume that also can function as a reference source. I recommend it to all clinical and basic scientists with an interest in the brain and its diseases."--American Journal of Psychology