Dementia and Memory (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Nilsson, Lars-Göran; Ohta, Nobuo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The aim of this volume is to describe research that is in progress, and the major findings which have been obtained in the scientific study of dementia. With contributions from world-class researchers in this area, the volume offers a concise overview of key findings, and will be of great interest to researchers and advanced students of cognitive psychology, and those working in related fields, such as gerontology, rehabilitation sciences, and allied health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317916574
• Artikelnr.: 40115193

Autorenporträt

Lars-Göran Nilsson is Professor of Psychology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research concerns the development of cognitive functions across the life span, in particular the development of memory. Within the Betula Project he has conducted a longitudinal study of how memory develops in adulthood and old age, and within the project Brain Child at Stockholm Brain Institute he has been engaged in research on how memory develops in children and teenagers. Nobuo Ohta is Professor of Psychology at Gakushuin University, Japan. His research interests are in the psychology of memory, cognition and learning, especially in implicit memory. Topics of ongoing work include life span memory development, false memory and amnesia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Is Alzheimer's disease predictable long in advance on the basis of memory performance
L-G. Nilsson Part 1: Early cognitive signs of dementia Introduction: L-G. Nilsson and N. Ohta 2. Mild cognitive impairment and the preclinical phase of dementia: Neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric aspects
K. Palmer
M. Musicco
and C. Caltagirone 3. Dissociations between losses of memory
intelligence and processing speed in old age
P. Rabbitt 4. Rationale of the Memory Binding Test
H. Buschke 5. Controlled Learning: from the Bench to the Clinic
E. Grober Part 2: Is dementia inevitable? Introduction
L.-G. Nilsson and N. Ohta 6. How do we measure cognitive function in the oldest old? A new framework for questionnaire assessment of dementia prevalence in centenarians
Y. Gondo
Y. Masui
H. Inagaki
and N. Hirose 7. A life-span approach to dementia
A. Herlitz and S. Dekhtyar 8. Cognitive Reserve: From Theory To Intervention
Y. Stern Part 3: Memory systems and dementia Introduction
L.-G. Nilsson and N. Ohta 9. Anterograde Memory in Frontotemporal Dementia
J. R. Hodges
M. Hornberger
and O. Piguet 10. Retrograde amnesia in dementia and memory disorders: are we any nearer an understanding? M. D. Kopelman 11. Language disorders in neurodegenerative disease: Insights into the organisation of semantic memory and language in the human brain
K. Patterson 12. Differential impairments of semantic cognition in progressive vs. stroke-related aphasias
M. A. Lambon Ralph 13. What does semantic dementia tell us about semantic memory
M. Bonner and M. Grossman 14. Word-Stem Completion Priming in Alzheimer's Disease
D. P. Salmon