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Dementia in Clinical Practice: A Neurological Perspective

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Cognitive neuropsychology often depends on unusual cases with highly circumscribed deficits for the development of ideas about brain structure/behavior functional correlations (Shallice 1988). The messy contingencies of clinical practice seldom correspond to these archetypal cases, but nonetheless specific cognitive syndromes can often be delineated, which facilitate differential diagnosis. The classical deficits, corresponding to the recognized domains of cognitive function examined by cognitive screening instruments (see Chap. 2), are amnesia, aphasia, agnosia, apraxia, and dysexecutive syndrome. In turn, specific clinical diagnoses (see Sect. 5.2) may be arrived at based on these deficits and informed by investigation findings (see Chap. 4).

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