New trends in the diagnosis and therapy of Alzheimer's disease. Edited by K. A. Jellinger G. Ladurner and M. Windisch. Springer-Verlag, Wien, Austria, 1994
✍ Scribed by John S. Kerr
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6222
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✦ Synopsis
Some physicians in the USA have coined the term 'chronic life syndrome' to describe the patterns of illness that negate the benefits of our increasingly long lives. Alzheimer's disease (AD) must surely come under this heading, affecting a significant proportion of elderly people with a severely debilitating illness.
This volume in the series Key Topics in Brain Research consists of papers presented to the 2nd international Symposium of Research Initiatives on New Trends in the Diagnosis and Therapy of Alzheimer's Disease, held in Salzburg in 1993. The papers give an overview of the current (then) knowledge of the morphology, neuroimaging, neurochemical markers and psychopathology of A D and related illnesses. The inclusion of 'therapy' in the title is somewhat misleading in that only one chapter deals with this topic, and it is a straightforward report of a clinical trial with Cerebrolysin@, a nootropic agent which, in this study, produced clinically relevant improvement in a high percentage of patients. There is also a chapter on the possibilities of nerve growth factor as a treatment.
Mark Stemmler and his co-authors disquss the development of a therapy sensitive activities of daily living (ADL) scale. This is somewhat out of date as the