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. American Psychiatric Association
Also: BPSD
Books and Other
Media:
Away from Her
DVD Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent 2006Ballard, Clive, et al
Dementia: Management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms 2001
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button DVD Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, and
Julia Ormond 2008The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 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 Weiner, Myron F. and Lipton ,
Anne M. American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias: The App Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry Diagnostic Issues in Dementia (Hardcover
2009)
DVD Ion Fiscuteanu 2005
Paperback
2007