Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians by Hodges, John R. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface to The First Edition Preface to The Second Edition Acknowledgements 1. Distributed Cognitive Functions

A General Theoretical Framework Arousal and Attention Memory Higher-Order Cognitive Function, Personality and Behaviour

2. Delirium and Dementia

Delirium Dementia Differential Diagnosis of Delirium and Dementia

3. Localized Cognitive Functions

Language Disorders of Reading—The Dyslexias Disorders of Writing—The Dysgraphias Syndromes of Calculating Impairment Disorders of Praxis—The Apraxias Damage to Specialized Right Hemisphere Functions Achromatopsia, Colour Agnosia, and Colour Anomia

4. Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric History Taking and Tips on Physical Examination

The Patient Interview The Informant Interview Family History Past Medical History Alcohol Intake Tips on Physical Examination

5. Testing Cognitive Function at the Bedside

General Observations Orientation and Attention Episodic Memory Semantic Memory Frontal Executive Functions Dominant (LEFT) Hemisphere Functions Right Hemisphere Functions

6. Standardized Mental Test Schedules: Their Uses and Abuses

Introduction Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) Information–Memory–Concentration Test (IMC): American Modification by Fuld Hodgkinson Mental Test Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) Cambridge Cognitive Examination—Revised: CAMCOG Alzheimer’s Disease Assement Scale (ADAS)

7. The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination—Revised and Supplementary Test Suggestions

ACE-R Additional Material for Particular Cases

8. Illustrative Cases

Case 1. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Case 2. Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease Case 3. Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease Case 4. Depressive Pseudodementia Case 5. Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Case 6. Progressive Non-Fluent Aphasia (PNFA) Case 7. Semantic Dementia Case 8. Progressive Prosopagnosia and Personality Change (right temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia) Case 9. Corticobasal Degeneration Case 10. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) Case 11. Dementia with Lewy Bodies Case 12. Visual Variant of Alzheimer’s Disease (posterior cortical atrophy) Case 13. Huntington’s Disease Case 14. Amnestic Stroke: Bilateral Thalamic Infarction Case 15. Transient Epileptic Amnesia Appendix: Neuropsychological Tests Selected Further Reading Index