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Author: C. Edward Coffey ,
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint: American Psychiatric Press Inc.
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 22.00cm
, Height: 4.90cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 2.948kg
ISBN: 9780880488419
ISBN 10: 0880488417
Pages: 1088
Publication Date: 01 March 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9781585623716
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
<p> This considerably expanded second edition is a superb tome. Its 1,000 pages are a comprehensive presentation of authoritative, up-to-date clinical data, expressed with clarity and conciseness. The wisdom and vast knowledge of the two editions and their well-chosen invited contributors is evident throughout... This well-planned and well-organized textbook is an expansive coverage of geriatric neuropsychiatry... This is an excellent book that supplies, in a user-friendly manner, information that will be consulted repeatedly. -- Psychiatric Times , January 2001
The approach taken in the book is refreshing and novel and certainly gets to the root very quickly of what many old age psychiatrists would regard as core business, that is the treatment of psychiatric manifestations of any disorder affecting older people, whether it be a neurological condition, a reaction to physical illness or a direct result of a psychiatrically defined disorder. Whether or not one embraces the concept of geriatric neuropsychiatry in total the book is a masterpiece of the current state of the field (purists will ask, Which field) written by a senior and authoritative group of researchers and clinicians. As a textbook in this area, it is unrivaled. - British Journal of Psychiatry, August 2001
The second edition to Coffey and Cummings' monumental work, American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Geriatric Neuropsychiatry , takes neuropsychiatry as a field even further down the final common pathway of aging. The editors have reorganized and expanded the work. They have added two prominent section editors, Mark Lovell and Godfrey Pearlson. The reader can use this work as a reference for major cognitive and epidemiologic questions of relevance to the aging population, and the clinician will find in it a catholic reference tool to assist with clinical diagnosis and treatment of behavioral disorders in the elderly. Both psychiatrists and neurologists will find sections that derive from their special perspectives upon older individuals with behavioral disease. Generalists will find in this volume the background that they need to better understand the last frontier of medical science: the diseases of the closing chapters of the life cycle. This second edition belongs in every library and in every office where serious geriatric medicine is practiced. -- R.B. Schiffer, M.D., Chair and Professor, The Vernon and Elizabeth Haggerton Chair in Neurology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Author Information
Edward Coffey, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry (Neuropsychiatry) and Medicine (Neurology), and Chairman of the Kathleen and Earl Ward Chair, Department of Psychiatry at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit Michigan. Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D., is Augustus S. Rose Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California.
