This book focuses on extrapyramidal signs and symptoms of all types of dementia and addresses
the issue of the artificial boundary between dementias and Parkinsonism which represent the
two most common symptoms found in degenerative central nervous system diseases.In Movement
Disorders in Dementias movement disorder specialists from around the world write on topics
generally restricted to dementia experts. Important motor issues related to either medication
in demented patients (drug-induced movement disorders) or manifestations common to all forms of
dementia regardless of underlying cause (gait disorders falls fear of falling) is followed
by analysis of the relationship between motor and cognitive symptoms from their common
pathogenesis to specific medical treatments.Movement Disorders in Dementias is aimed at general
neurologists dementia specialists movement disorders specialists neuropsychologists and
geriatricians.
