Memory Loss/Alzheimer's Dis/Dementia 2E

SECTION I: EVALUATING THE PATIENT WITH MEMORY LOSS

1. Why Diagnose and Treat Memory Loss, Alzheimer&aposs Disease, and Dementia?

2. Evaluating the Patient with Memory Loss or Dementia

SECTION II: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MEMORY LOSS

3. Approach to the Patient with Memory Loss, Mild Cognitive Impairment, or Dementia

4. Alzheimer&aposs Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer&aposs Disease

5. Dementia with Lewy Bodies (Including Parkinson&aposs Disease Dementia)

6. Vascular Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment

7. Primary Progressive Aphasia & Other Disorders of Speech

8. Frontotemporal Dementia

9. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

10. Corticobasal Degeneration

11. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

12. Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease

13. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

14. Other Disorders That Disrupt Memory

SECTION III: TREATMENT OF MEMORY LOSS

15. Goals of Treatment of Memory Loss, Alzheimer&aposs Disease, and Dementia

16. Cholinesterase Inhibitors

17. Memantine (Generic and Namenda XR)

18. Vitamins, Herbs, Supplements, and Anti-Inflammatories

19. Future Treatments of Memory Loss

20. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Memory Loss

SECTION IV: BEHAVIORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA

21. Evaluating the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

22. Caring For and Educating the Caregiver

23. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

24. Pharmacological Treatment of the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

SECTION V: ADDITIONAL ISSUES

25. Life Adjustments

26. Legal and Financial Issues

27. Special Issues

ONLINE ONLY APPENDICES

APPENDIX A: Cognitive Test and Questionnaire Forms, Instructions, and Normative Data

APPENDIX B: Screening for Memory Loss

APPENDIX C: Our Current Understanding of Memory