The neuropathology of dementia

Preface; 1. Definition, clinical features and neuroanatomical basis of dementia Thomas J. Grabowski and Antonio R. Damasio; 2. Important anatomical landmarks in the brain in dementia James H. Morris and Margaret M. Esiri; 3. Practical approach to pathological diagnosis Margaret M. Esiri and James H. Morris; 4. Morphometric methods and dementia Michael C. Irizarry; 5. Safety precautions in laboratories involved with dementia diagnosis and research Jeanne E. Bell; 6. Molecular diagnosis of dementia Vivianna M. D. Van Deerlin; 7. Neuropathology of the aging brain Patrick R. Hof, Thierry Bussière and John H. Morrison; 8. Neuroimaging Alzheimer's disease Arthur W. Toga, Michael S. Mega and Paul M. Thompson; 9. Alzheimer's disease James H. Morris and Zs Nagy; 10. Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease D. M. A. Mann; 11. Sporadic tauopathies: Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and argyrophilic brain disease Dennis W. Dickson; 12. Hereditary tauopathies and idiopathic frontotemporal dementias Mark S. Forman, John Q. Trojanowski and Virginia M.-Y. Lee; 13. Vascular dementias James H. Morris, Hannu Kalimo and Matti Viitanen; 14. Familial and sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathies associated with dementia and the BRI dementias Gordon T. Plant, Tamas Revesz, Janice L. Holton, Jorge Ghiso and Blas Frangione; 15. Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy and the spectrum of diseases with alpha-synuclein inclusions Benoit I. Giasson, Virginia M-Y. Lee and John Q. Trojanowski; 16. Huntington disease Jean Paul G. Vonsattel and Maxim Lianski; 17. Human prion diseases James W. Ironside and Mark W. Head; 18. Alcoholism and dementia Clive Harper and Richard Scolyer; 19. Hydrocephalus and dementia Margaret M. Esiri and G. Rosenberg; 20. Head injury and dementia C. Smith, J. A. R. Nicoll and D. I. Graham; 21. Infectious (and inflammatory) diseases causing dementia Harry V. Vinters; 22. Schizophrenia and dementia Paul J. Harrison; 23. Other diseases that cause dementia Margaret M. Esiri; 24. Transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative disease David R. Borchelt, Joanna Jankowsky, Alena Savonenko, Gabriele Schilling, Jiou Wang and Guilian Xu; Appendix: Dementia brain banks; Index.