Mental disorders in the elderly: new therapeutic approaches/ N Brunello, S Z Langer and G Racagni eds.

Includes bibliography and index

Bipolar and unipolar depressive disorders in geriatric patients -- Depression in geriatric patients -- Strategies in the treatment of psychiatric symptoms associated with neurological disorders in the elderly -- Treating depression in the elderly -- Old and new antidepressants in the elderly -- Cardiovascular aspects in the treatment of elderly depressed patients -- Epidemiology and public health impact of anxiety disorders in late life -- Anxiety disorders in the elderly: treatment considerations -- Early identification of cognitive impairment in the elderly -- Management of noncognitive sympoms in dementia with lewy bodies -- Alzheimer's disease molecular biology and the future of rational neuropsychotropic drug development -- Biological basis for the pharmacological modulation of amyloid precursor protein metabolism -- Therapeutic approaches related to the membrane hypothesis of aging and dementia -- A rational psychological approach to the treatment of behavioral disturbances and symptomatology in Alzheimer's disease based upon recognition of the developmental age -- Signal transduction mechanisms in alzheimer's disease -- Psychotropic effects of estrogen replacement therapy in menopause and alzheimer's disease -- Antipsychotics in the elderly: the use of typical vs atypical compounds -- Late-onset schizophrenia: diagnosis and treatment -- Regulations og NMDA receptor expression in response to typical and atypical antipsychotics -- Treatent of behaviorally disturbed elderly patients: a clinical approach -- Characteristics of psychoytropic drug metabolism in geriatric patients -- facing the issue of drug interactions in elderly depressed patients -- Care costs of mental disorders in the elderly