Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I / Background, Concepts, and Diagnostics -- Chapter One - Boundaries between Normal Aging and Dementia -- Chapter Two - The Spectrum of Dementias -- Chapter Three - Diagnostic Procedures for Dementia -- Part II / Alzheimer Dementias -- Chapter Four - The Neuropathology of Alzheimer Dementia -- Chapter Five - Neural Inflammatory Mechanisms in Alzheimer Syndrome -- Chapter Six - Clinical Subgroups of Alzheimer Disease -- Chapter Seven - Progressive Aphasia, Frontotemporal Dementia, and Other "Focal Dementias" -- Chapter Eight - "Retrophylogenesis" of Memory in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type -- Part III / Vascular Dementias and Subcortical Dementias -- Chapter Nine - Cortical and Frontosubcortical Dementias -- Chapter Ten - Noninfarct Vascular Dementia -- Chapter Eleven - The Relationship of Hypertension to Vascular Dementia -- Chapter Twelve - Vascular Dementias and Alzheimer Disease -- Chapter Thirteen - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Dementia Complex -- Part IV / Depressive Dementias -- Chapter Fourteen - Depressive Dementia -- Chapter Fifteen - Depressive Dementia: Cognitive and Biological Correlates and Course of Illness -- Chapter Sixteen - The Nondepressive Pseudodementias -- Chapter Seventeen - Neurobiology of Major Depression in Alzheimer Disease -- Part V / Conclusions and Future Directions -- Chapter Eighteen - Approaches to the Treatment of Dementing Illness -- Chapter Nineteen - The Spectra of the Dementias -- Index.