Vascular Dementia
Vascular Dementia Timo Erkinjuntti Introduction Vascular dementia is the second most frequent cause of dementia.(1,2) Because vascular causes of cognitive impairment are common, may be preventable, and the patients could…
Dementia Due to Huntington’s Disease
Dementia Due to Huntington’s Disease Susan Folstein Russell L. Margolis Introduction Huntington’s disease (HD) was first described in 1872 by an American physician living on Long Island, New York. His…
Dementia in Parkinson’s Disease
Dementia in Parkinson’s Disease R. H. S. Mindham T. A. Hughes Introduction Parkinson’s disease has been regarded as a neurological condition mainly affecting motor function and arising from specific lesions…
Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Dementia with Lewy Bodies I. G. McKeith Introduction Lewy bodies are spherical neuronal inclusions, first described by the German neuropathologist Friederich Lewy while working in Alzheimer’s laboratory in Munich in…
Prion Disease
Prion Disease John Collinge Introduction The human prion diseases, also known as the subacute spongiform encephalopathies, have been traditionally classified into Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome (GSS) (also known as…
Frontotemporal Dementias
Frontotemporal Dementias Lars Gustafson Arne Brun Introduction Nosological classification of organic dementia is based on current knowledge and theories of aetiology, including genetics, clinical picture, the pathological substrate, and the…
Dementia: Alzheimer’s Disease
Dementia: Alzheimer’s Disease Simon Lovestone Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias incur huge costs to society, to the families of those affected, and to the individuals themselves. Costs to…
Current Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry
Current Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry Glen O. Gabbard Psychodynamic psychiatry is broadly defined today. In fact, the term psychodynamic is now used almost synonymously with psychoanalytical. Freud originally used the…
Object Relations, Attachment Theory, Self-Psychology, and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
Object Relations, Attachment Theory, Self-Psychology, and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis Jeremy Holmes Despite many splits and schisms, dating back to Adler and Jung’s early break with Freud, there has been an enduring…
