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| Preface to The First Edition | |
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| Preface to The Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Distributed Cognitive Functions | |
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| A General Theoretical Framework | |
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| Arousal and Attention | |
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| Memory | |
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| Higher-Order Cognitive Function, Personality and Behaviour | |
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| Delirium and Dementia | |
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| Delirium | |
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| Dementia | |
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| Differential Diagnosis of Delirium and Dementia | |
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| Localized Cognitive Functions | |
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| Language | |
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| Disorders of Reading-The Dyslexias | |
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| Disorders of Writing-The Dysgraphias | |
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| Syndromes of Calculating Impairment | |
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| Disorders of Praxis-The Apraxias | |
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| Damage to Specialized Right Hemisphere Functions | |
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| Achromatopsia, Colour Agnosia, and Colour Anomia | |
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| Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric History Taking and Tips on Physical Examination | |
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| The Patient Interview | |
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| The Informant Interview | |
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| Family History | |
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| Past Medical History | |
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| Alcohol Intake | |
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| Tips on Physical Examination | |
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| Testing Cognitive Function at the Bedside | |
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| General Observations | |
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| Orientation and Attention | |
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| Episodic Memory | |
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| Semantic Memory | |
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| Frontal Executive Functions | |
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| Dominant (LEFT) Hemisphere Functions | |
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| Right Hemisphere Functions | |
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| Standardized Mental Test Schedules: Their Uses and Abuses | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) | |
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| Information-Memory-Concentration Test (IMC): American Modification by Fuld | |
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| Hodgkinson Mental Test | |
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| Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) | |
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| Cambridge Cognitive Examination-Revised: CAMCOG | |
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| Alzheimer's Disease Assement Scale (ADAS) | |
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| The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised and Supplementary Test Suggestions | |
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| ACE-R | |
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| Additional Material for Particular Cases | |
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| Illustrative Cases | |
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| Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) | |
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| Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Moderate Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Depressive Pseudodementia | |
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| Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia | |
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| Progressive Non-Fluent Aphasia (PNFA) | |
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| Semantic Dementia | |
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| Progressive Prosopagnosia and Personality Change (right temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia) | |
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| Corticobasal Degeneration | |
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| Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) | |
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| Dementia with Lewy Bodies | |
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| Visual Variant of Alzheimer's Disease (posterior cortical atrophy) | |
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| Huntington's Disease | |
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| Amnestic Stroke: Bilateral Thalamic Infarction | |
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| Transient Epileptic Amnesia | |
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| Appendix: Neuropsychological Tests | |
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| Selected Further Reading | |
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| Index | |