Table of Contents

List of contributors; 1. Introduction: classification of neurodegenerative diseases Gabor G. Kovacs; 2. Clinical aspects of dementia Erin C. Golden and Keith A. Josephs; 3. Clinical aspects of movement disorders Walter Pirker; 4. Ethical, health and safety considerations James W. Ironside; 5. Practical approach to diagnosis: sampling and basic stainings Gabor G. Kovacs; 6. Molecular methods Isidro Ferrer; 7. Alzheimer's disease Charles Duyckaerts; 8. Tauopathies Gabor G. Kovacs; 9. Synucleinopathies Irina Alafuzoff, Maria Pikkarainen and Laura Parkkinen; 10. Human prion diseases James W. Ironside, Diane L. Ritchie, Alexander H. Peden and Mark W. Head; 11. Neurodegenerative diseases linked to trinucleotide repeats Charles Duyckaerts, Natacha Joyon and Alexandra Durr; 12. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration Tibor Hortobágyi and Nigel J. Cairns; 13. Other NDG conditions I: hereditary cerebral amyoid angiopathies Ruben Vidal and Bernardino Ghetti; 14. Other NDG conditions II: familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies Ruben Vidal and Bernardino Ghetti; 15. Other NDG conditions III: hereditary ferritinopathies Ruben Vidal and Bernardino Ghetti; 16. Other NDG conditions IV: neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation Isidro Ferrer; 17. Concomitant pathologies I: cerebrovascular diseases Isidro Ferrer; 18. Concomitant pathologies II: neurodegenerative conditions Gabor G. Kovacs, Isidro Ferrer and Irina Alafuzoff; Appendix A. Molecular classification of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with genetic correlations Gabor G. Kovacs and Nigel J. Cairns; Appendix B. Scheme for evaluation of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) Gabor G. Kovacs and Nigel J. Cairns; Index.