Full Description
This new book presents important recent research on cognitive disorders which are disturbances in the mental process related to thinking, reasoning, and judgement. They include delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders. Cognition includes the domains of attention, memory, language, gnosis, visuospatial function, praxis, and executive function, and is traditionally distinguished from the emotions or 'feelings'. Cognitive disorders may disturb one domain specifically, as in a selective impairment of memory (amnesia) or language (aphasia), or, more often, a combination of deficits, as in mental retardation and dementia.
Contents
Preface. EXPERT COMMENTARYSurrounding the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency); Screening Tests to detect Mild Cognitive Impairment. RESEARCH AND REVIEW STUDIES: Detection of MCI with Cognitive Screening Tests (Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Cognitive Screening Tests -- A Critical Review and Preliminary Data on the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale); Essential Fatty Acids and Cognition; Molecular Basis of CNS Aging, Frailty, Fitness and Longevity -- A Model Based on Cellular Energetics; Depression and Predementia Syndromes -- Cause or Effect?; Research on Cognition Disorder -- Methodological Issues; Child Molester's Cognitive Distortions -- A Brief Research Review; Index.NER(01): GB IE
