Late-Onset Mental Disorders
Edited by Andreas Marneros
The association between certain diseases and particular
periods of life has been studied since the 19th century, yet
attempts to delineate categories of mental disorder unique to old
age have floundered over the decades, and the debate continues
unabated.
After an historical overview, this book looks at differences
between early-onset and late-onset disorders. Is there anything
special about old-age depression? Are there any atypical features
of late-onset schizophrenia? Besides questions concerning
depression, dementia and psychosis, the book looks at sleep
disturbances in the elderly, anxiety, use of anti-dementia drugs,
anti-depressants and neuroleptics in old age, and psychological
processes.
It will be of particular interest to old age psychiatrists,
liaison psychiatrists, epidemiologists, university lecturers and
medical historians.
Contents
- Late-onset mental disorders: a conceptual history. - G. E.
Berrios
- Epidemiology of mental disorders in old age .- H. Helmchen,
M. Linden, F. M. Reischies and T. Wernicke
- Psychodiagnostic aspects of late-onset mental disorders:
cognitive speed and the diagnosis of dementia. - Ulrich
M. Fleischmann
- Late-onset depression: long-term course and outcome.
- J. Angst
- Delusional (psychotic) depression in the elderly. - Robert
C. Baldwin
- Late-onset schizophrenia .- Laura. L. Symonds and
Dilip V. Jeste
- Late-onset schizoaffective disorders. - Andreas
Marneros
- Dysthymia, somatisation disorder and generalisedanxiety in the
elderly. - Dan. G. Blazer
- Sleep and sleep disturbances in the elderly. - Ulrich
Voderholzer and Mathias Berger
- Neuropsychiatric features of dementia. - Alistair
Burns
- Brain imaging in late-onset mental disorders: testing
hypotheses. - G. D. Pearlson
- Treatment of late-onset mental disorder with antidepressants
and neuroleptics. - H.-J. Möller
- Antidementia drugs. - H.-J. Gertz and H. Wolf