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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
