Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Basic clinical approaches to diagnosis Bruce L. Miller; 2. Neurogenetics of dementia Huidy Shu; 3. Frontotemporal dementia Indre Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller; 4. Alzheimer's disease Brandy J. Matthews and Bruce L. Miller; 5. Mental status examination Casey E. Krueger and Joel H. Kramer; 6. Neuropsychiatric features of dementia Edmond Teng, Gad A. Marshall and Jeffrey L. Cummings; 7. Neuroimaging in dementia Maria Carmela Tartaglia and Howard Rosen; 8. Epidemiology and risk factors Kristine Yaffe and Deborah E. Barnes; 9. Animal models of dementia Erik D. Roberson and Aimee W. Kao; 10. Neuropathology of dementia Marcelo N. Macedo, Eun-Joo Kim and William W. Seeley; Part II. Cognitive Impairment, Not Demented: 11. Cerebrovascular contributions to amnestic mild cognitive impairment Charles DeCarli, Adriane Votaw Mayda and Christine Wu Nordahl; 12. Mild cognitive impairment Brendan J. Kelley and Ronald C. Petersen; 13. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subgroups Julene K. Johnson; 14. Early clinical features of the Parkinsonian-related dementias Bradley F. Boeve; 15. Dementia treatment Bradley F. Boeve and Adam L. Boxer; 16. Dementia and cognition in the oldest-old Kristin Kahle-Wrobleski, María M. Corrada and Claudia H. Kawas; Part III. Slowly Progressive Dementias: 17. Semantic dementia John R. Hodges, R. Rhys Davies and Karalyn Patterson; 18. Progressive non-fluent aphasia Jennifer Ogar and Marilu L. Gorno-Tempini; 19. Cognition in corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy Paul McMonagle and Andrew Kertesz; 20. Cognitive and behavioral abnormalities of vascular dementia Jee H. Jeong, Eun-Joo Kim, Sang Won Seo and Duk L. Na; 21. CADASIL: a genetic model of arteriolar degeneration, white matter injury, and dementia in later life Stephen Salloway, Thea Brennan-Krohn, Stephen Correia, Michelle Mellion and Suzanne delaMonte; Part IV. Rapidly Progressive Dementias: 22. Prion disorders and other rapidly progressive dementias Michael D. Geschwind, Aissa Haman and Indre Viskontas; 23. Delirium masquerading as dementia S. Andrew Josephson; 24. Paraneoplastic disorders of the memory and cognition Luis Bataller and Josep Dalmau; 25. Dementia with Lewy bodies Caroline A. Racine; Index.