DSM-IV & DSM-IV-TR: Dementia
Although classified as mental disorders because they involve deterioration in mental, behavioral, and emotional functioning, all these brain disorders are probably caused by physical disease, trauma or drug effect and are classified according to the underlying disease state.
Categories by localization: amnestic (Persisting Amnestic Disorder) | cortical (Alzheimer's) | frontal | subcortical (Parkinson's Disease)
Categories by etiology: Alzheimer's | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease | Head Trauma | Huntington's Disease | HIV Disease | Parkinson's Disease | Pick's Disease | Substance-Induced Persisting | Vascular | Dementia Due to Other General Medical Conditions | Dementia Due to Multiple Etiologies
Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Copyright 2000 American Psychiatric Association
Also: BPSD
Practice Guidelines
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Books and Other
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- Away from Her DVD Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent 2006
- Ballard, Clive, et al Dementia: Management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms 2001
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
DVD Ion Fiscuteanu 2005
- Hodges, John R. Early-Onset Dementia: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Hardcover)
- Lishman, William Alwyn Organic Psychiatry - The Psychological Consequences of Cerebral Disorder Paperback 1998
- O'Brien, John (Editor), et al Dementia Hardcover | Mass Market Paperback
- On Golden Pond DVD Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda 1982
- Rabins, Peter V, et al Practical Dementia Care (Hardcover)
- Sunderland, et al Diagnostic Issues in Dementia: Advancing the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Paperback 2007
