An Atlas of Alzheimer's Disease

An atlas/textbook of Alzheimer's disease for general practitioners as well as for specialists in ageing and dementia. It covers current knowledge in the key areas of Alzheimer's disease research, including clinical diagnostic features and neuropathological stages. It contains a section on positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography in dementia and one on neurofibrillary degeneration. Two sections cover amyloidosis in Alzheimer's disease and chemical and molecular considerations of amyloid. The concluding section reviews the genetics of Alzheimer's disease.