Frontotemporal Dementia Syndromes »

John Hodges is Professor of Behavioural Neurology at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the University Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Cambridge, UK.

This book provides a much needed review of frontotemporal dementia and related syndromes.

List of contributors     vii
Preface     ix
Overview of frontotemporal dementia   John R. Hodges     1
Epidemiology of frontotemporal dementia   Andrew Graham     25
Clinical presentations of frontotemporal dementia   Christopher M. Kipps   Jonathan A. Knibb   John R. Hodges     38
Overlap syndromes   Thomas H. Bak     80
The neuropsychology of frontotemporal dementia   John R. Hodges   Karalyn Patterson     102
Neuroimaging and other investigative findings   Peter J. Nestor     134
The histopathology of frontotemporal dementia   R. Rhys Davies   John H. Xuereb     161
Molecular neuropathology in familial and sporadic frontotemporal dementia   Laura Gasparini   Maria Grazia Spillantini     208
The genetics of frontotemporal dementia   Jeremy Brown     257
Psychological interventions in frontotemporal dementia   Sinclair Lough   Vanessa Garfoot     277
Index     326