Aging and Neuropsychological AssessmentSpringer Science & Business Media, 29. lip 2013. - Broj stranica: 370 It is a privilege to be asked to write the foreword for so excellent a book, so timely and so much needed by the field. Not only is it most unusual these days to have a single authored volume on so broad a topic, but Dr. La Rue has done a superb job of providing both a scholarly treatise and a practical handbook. With a burgeoning elderly population and the corresponding increase in geriatric psychopathology, the needs of mental health services are exceeding by far the supply of appropriate providers. In an effort to meet this need, psychiatry, medicine, neurology, pharmacology, psychology, nursing, and social work have all made the provision of training in geriatrics and gerontology a high priority-but I fear we are losing the race. For example, multidisciplinary teams that assess, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders in elderly patients are incomplete without clinical psychologists and neuropsy chologists, and yet there is barely a handful of clinical psychologists trained in dealing with geriatric patients. We can count on our fingers the additional ones graduated each year. In hospitals, clinics, and private practices across the country, otherwise skilled psychologists are unprepared to respond to the special mental health needs of the elderly. A few CME programs are helping to address this need, but they are clearly not enough. |
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... observed. Variability. in. Aging. Trends. Development across the life span has been compared to an opening fan, implying that the uniqueness of the individual increases with the passage of time. There are many studies of aging that seem to ...
... observed. Variability. in. Aging. Trends. Development across the life span has been compared to an opening fan, implying that the uniqueness of the individual increases with the passage of time. There are many studies of aging that seem to ...
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... observed with normal human aging. Information about neuroanatomical changes is presented first, followed by discussion of selected neurotransmitter changes and neurophysiological investigations. Each section is organized in two parts ...
... observed with normal human aging. Information about neuroanatomical changes is presented first, followed by discussion of selected neurotransmitter changes and neurophysiological investigations. Each section is organized in two parts ...
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... observed in autopsy studies are gyral atrophy and ventricular dilation (Berg, 1988a). Gyral atrophy refers to the declining mass of brain tissue in prominent cortical regions, with corresponding widening of sulci between these regions ...
... observed in autopsy studies are gyral atrophy and ventricular dilation (Berg, 1988a). Gyral atrophy refers to the declining mass of brain tissue in prominent cortical regions, with corresponding widening of sulci between these regions ...
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... observed in the hippocampal region and in neocortical pyramidal cells. Loss of dendritic branches reduces the number of interconnections between brain cells; however, as in neuronal loss, it is not clear how important dendritic ...
... observed in the hippocampal region and in neocortical pyramidal cells. Loss of dendritic branches reduces the number of interconnections between brain cells; however, as in neuronal loss, it is not clear how important dendritic ...
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Asenath LaRue. observed in tissues of healthy young adults. Infiltration of amyloid into the lining of cerebral blood vessels and free deposits of amyloid within brain tissue are observed with increasing frequency in advanced old age. In ...
Asenath LaRue. observed in tissues of healthy young adults. Infiltration of amyloid into the lining of cerebral blood vessels and free deposits of amyloid within brain tissue are observed with increasing frequency in advanced old age. In ...
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