Dementia in Clinical Practice: A Neurological Perspective Pragmatic
This expanded, updated third edition summarizes the pragmatic diagnostic accuracy studies of neurological signs and cognitive and non-cognitive screening instruments undertaken in the author’s clinic in the context of day-to-day practice involving patient
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Pragmatic Studies in the Cognitive Function Clinic Third Edition A. J. Larner
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Dementia in Clinical Practice: A Neurological Perspective
A. J. Larner
Dementia in Clinical Practice: A Neurological Perspective Pragmatic Studies in the Cognitive Function Clinic Third Edition
A. J. Larner Cognitive Function Clinic Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery Liverpool United Kingdom
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Preface to the Third Edition
As retirement (intellectual extinction?) approaches, ensuring that this third edition, based as it is on the pursuit of clinic-based pragmatic studies, will be the final iteration of this book, I recognise it to be a rhetoric of failure, and myself as a specialist in failure. But failure may nonetheless merit documentation since this can be as informative as success, highlighting dead ends which no longer require pursuit. And this should come as no surprise—use of screening instruments was perhaps never more than a crude stopgap pending more sophisticated understanding and assessment of the heterogeneous clinical phenotype of cognitive impairment, as pioneered by the movement to define disease biomarkers. Hence this attempt to curate studies performe
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