HOLMES, CLIVE AND ROBERT HOWARE - Advances in Old Age Psychiatry

a5+ garage dark blue white text, Wrightson Biomedical Publishing Ltd. 1997. (ISBN: 9781871816341). Hardcover. Hardback no D/J in good condition. Chromosomes to Community Care. Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K. Volume on the recent developments in the field of psychiatry for the aged. Based on a short course held at the Institute of Psychiatry in July, 1996. 25 contributors, 2 U.S. DNLM: Mental Disordersin old age. The latest in a successful series on aspects of old age psychiatry, this new volume focuses particularly on current clinical issues relating to the aetiology & management of the dementias & functional disorders of old age. The book is divided into five sections, the first of three of which are devoted to the dementias & cover genetic & neurochemical risk factors, clinical & pathological features of Alzheimer's disease, cortical Lewy body disease, frontal lobe & vascular dementia, & pharmacological, behavioural & environmental treatment strategies. Section four deals with the treatment & prognosis of dysthymia & depressive illness & includes discussion of the new antidepressants, ECT & behavioural therapy. The final section looks at cross-cultural issues & functional disorders in the elderly, such as phobic & anxiety disorders, paranoid states & senile squalor. Good.

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