Neurology: Proceedings of the XIIIth World Congress of Neurology Hamburg, September 16, 1985 [Paperback]

On the Dynamics Between Growth and Decline in the Aging of Intelligence and Memory.- 1 The Dementias.- Clinical Aspects of the Dementias.- Historical Overview of the Dementias.- The Descriptive Epidemiology of the Dementias.- Clinical Presentation of the Dementias.- The Evolution of the Diagnosis of Dementia: Past, Present and Future.- Brain Imaging in the Assessment of the Dementias.- Neuropsychological Approach to Dementia.- Clinical Management of the American Patient with Dementia.- Clinical Management in Europe of Patients with Dementia.- Research Issues in Alzheimers Disease.- Analytic Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Alzheimers Disease.- Classical and Modern Neuropathological Approaches to Alzheimers Disease.- Structural Proteins in Alzheimers Disease.- Energy Metabolism and Neurotransmitters in Alzheimers Disease.- Differential Cell Loss in (Peptide) Neurons in the Anterior Hypothalamus with Aging and Alzheimers Disease: Lack of Changes in Cell Density.- The Dementias: A View to the Future.- The Dementias: A View to the Future.- 2 Brain and Behavior.- Mechanisms of Attention and Attentional Disorders. Session in Honor of the Late Dr. Norman Geschwind.- The Impact of Dr. Geschwinds Work on Neuropsychology.- Anatomical Basis of Spatial Attention.- The Contribution of Electrophysiology to the Study of Attention.- Representational Impairment as a Factor in Neglect.- Disorders of Visual Perception and Recognition.- Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms of Visual Perception.- Visual Agnosia for Objects.- Disorders of Face Recognition.- Recovery of Visual Field in Patients with Postgeniculate Damage.- Memory and its Disorders.- Is Vascular Thalamic Amnesia a Disconnection Syndrome?.- What Amnesics Can and Can Not Do.- 3 Neuroepidemiology and ClinicalTrials.- Neuroepidemiology.- Neuroepidemiology as the Basis of Scientific Clinical Neurology.- Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular Disease: International Patterns.- Cerebrovascular Risk Factors.- Epidemiology of Epilepsló&