Amnesic Syndromes
Amnesic Syndromes Michael D. Kopelman Introduction Amnesic disorders can be broadly classified across two orthogonal dimensions. Along the first dimension, there can be transient or discrete episodes of amnesia as…
PSYCHIATRY
Alcohol-Related Dementia (Alcohol-Induced Dementia; Alcohol-Related Brain Damage)
Alcohol-Related Dementia (Alcohol-Induced Dementia; Alcohol-Related Brain Damage) Jane Marshall Introduction Long-term heavy alcohol consumption causes significant brain abnormalities and impairs cognitive functioning. A number of terms have been used to…
The Neuropsychiatry of Head Injury
The Neuropsychiatry of Head Injury Simon Fleminger Head injury ‘imparts at a blow both physical and psychological trauma’,(1) and the consequences are often devastating and enduring.(2) Not infrequently head injury…
Dementia Due to HIV Disease
Dementia Due to HIV Disease Mario Maj Introduction The first description of a syndrome consisting of cognitive, motor, and behavioural disturbances in patients with AIDS was published in 1986.(1) The…
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…
