Age-associated Neurological Diseases

Peter Dal-Bianco lehrt am Institut für Klinische Neurologie an der Medizinischen Universität Wien, wo er ab 1987 die Spezialambulanz für Gedächtnisstörungen aufbaute. Sein Forschungsgebiet umfasst die Alzheimer-Krankheit und andere Demenzformen.

This volume covers selected up-dated contributions from the Conference on Age-associated Neurological Diseases held in Vienna 1989. Fields covered include Age-associated Memory Impairment (AAMI) Alzheimer's and Parkinson's dieseases and dementias and movement disorders of other etiologies. Concerning dementia, some papers deal with diagnosis employing neuro-imaging methods - PET, SPECT, MRI and XCT, others by means of electro-physiological methods. An important aspect is the early preclinical diagnosis of dementia using neuro-psychological tests to enhance the chance of effective treatment. Finally, drugs now under clinical investigation are discussed and preliminary results for several compounds are presented. This volume with its up-to-date contributions will be of special interest to all physicians treating elderly persons with age-associated degenerative diseases.

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Diagnosis, assessment and treatment of ageassociated memory impairment.- Physiology of short-term verbal memory.- Positron emission tomography in the differential diagnosis of organic dementias.- The spectrum of subcortical lesions in MRI, sensitivity and specificity.- Cytoskeleton pathology in Alzheimer disease and related disorders.- Morphometry of the corpus callosum in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease.- Clinical and epidemiological aspects of dementia in the elderly.- Multiinfarct dementia.- Early diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia?.- Galanthamine treatment in Alzheimer's disease.- Human blood platelet as research tool in neuropsychopharmacology.- Pattern electroretinogram and luminance electroretinogram in Alzheimer disease.- Clinical comparison of dementia in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.- Memory dysfunction in Parkinson patients: an analysis of verbal learning processes.- Does the absence of clinical expression of choreoathetosis, despite severe striatal atrophy, correlate with plasticity of neuropeptide synthesis?.- Essential tremor: functional disability vs subjective impairment.- Sympathetic vascular function in patients with central dysautonomia.- Epidemiology and out-patient care in Parkinson's disease - Results from a pilot-study in Northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).- Parkinsonian features in advanced Down's syndrome.- Effects of treatment with trihexyphenidyl on cognitive function in early Parkinson's disease.- MRI in basal ganglia diseases.- Extrapyramidal disturbances after cyanide poisoning (first MRT-investigation of the brain).- Stroke: evaluation of long-term rehabilitation effects.- Medical educational and functional determinants of employment after stroke.