Advances in Old Age Psychiatry

Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K. Volume on the recent developments in the field of psychiatry for the aged. Based on a short course held at the Institute of Psychiatry in July, 1996. 25 contributors, 2 U.S. DNLM: Mental Disorders--in old age.

Contributors

vii

(2)

Preface

ix

I Dementia Risk Factors

3

(40)

1 The Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease

3

(19)

Jorge A. Cervilla

Martin J. Prince

Anthony H. Mann

2 Cross-Cultural Studies of Dementia

22

(8)

Marcus Richards

3 Apolipoprotein E: Implications and Applications

30

(13)

Clive Holmes

II Clinical and Pathological Features of Dementia

43

(56)

4 Molecular Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

43

(9)

Simon Lovestone

5 Dementia with Lewy Bodies

52

(8)

Ian G. McKeith

6 Frontal Lobe Dementia

64

(15)

David M. A. Mann

7 Vascular Cognitive Impairment: A New Approach

79

(20)

Ashok Devasenapathy

Vladimir Hachinski

III Dementia Management

99

(38)

8 Principles of Drug Treatment in Alzheimer's Disease

99

(10)

Andrew W. Procter

9 Behavioural and Environmental Treatment in Dementia

109

(8)

Steven H. Zarit

10 Ethical and Legal Issues in the Care of Demented Old People

117

(11)

Rob Jones

11 Dementia Care in the UK: Looking Towards the Millenium

128

(9)

Elaine Murphy

IV Treatment and Prognosis of Affective Disorders

137

(90)

12 Defeating Depression in Old Age

137

(6)

Brice Pitt

13 New Antidepressants in the Elderly

143

(18)

Cornelius L. E. Katona

14 ECT in the Elderly

161

(11)

David Wilkinson

15 Non-Drug Treatment of Depression in Older People

172

(11)

Martin Blanchard

16 Dysthymic Disorders and Chronic Minor Depression in Late Life: Description and Treatment

183

(11)

Dan G. Blazer

17 The Prognosis of Depression in Later Life

194

(33)

Robert Baldwin

V Functional Disorders

227

(50)

18 Phobic Disorders and Panic in Old Age

227

(7)

James Lindesay

19 Functional Disorders in Ethnic Minority Elders

234

(12)

Melanie Abas

20 Diogenes Syndrome: The Role of the Psychiatrist

246

(8)

Colm Cooney

21 Drug Treatments in Paranoid States of the Elderly

254

(11)

Robert Howard

22 Psychotherapy and the Elderly

265

(12)

Mark Ardern

Index

277

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