El Programa de Psicoestimulación Integral para Demencias (PPID) está diseñado para intervenir en los síntomas cognitivos, conductuales, físicos y emocionales de las demencias que se encuentran en fases iniciales y moderadas de la enfermedad. Diversos autores han puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de estimular al enfermo de forma integral, abarcando no solo la función cognitiva, sino también tras dimensiones propias de la enfermedad como son la capacidad funcional, el estado motor, los trastornos del comportamiento o la calidad de vida de la persona. Asimismo, establecen la importancia de realizar una programación concreta y exhaustiva de estimulación, sistematizando y estandarizando de forma temporal los programas. Por todo ello, el PPID es un programa de intervención multimodal que ofrece la intervención de las diferentes áreas. Está sistematizado y estandarizado, organizándose en sesiones claramente establecidas, especificando en todo momento qué función se estimula, cuáles son los objetivos que nos podemos plantear y con qué actividad conseguiremos tal objetivo. A su vez, plantea una temporización clara y específica para su aplicación en cualquier ámbito gerontológico. Además, en la obra también se recogen los resultados tras la aplicación del programa, ofreciendo una mejora en los programas existentes y avanzando en la calidad de vida del enfermo con demencia.

El contenido de esta obra corresponde a un programa integral de psicoestimulación cognitivo-conductual para enfermos con demencia o deterioro cognitivo. Aporta, de forma sistemática y organizada, la planificación de una intervención completa e integral abordando tanto el área cognitiva, como la funcional y la física. Su objetivo principal es ofrecer una herramienta de intervención y una guía para aquellos profesionales que trabajan con este tipo de población, proporcionando un instrumento completo de intervención práctica y de evaluación de eficacia e influencia del programa en los enfermos que se aplique.

Without guiding principles, clinicians can easily get lost in the maze of problems that a brain-damaged patient presents. This book underlines the importance of patients' subjective experience of brain disease or injury, and the frustration and confusion they undergo. It shows that the symptom picture is a mixture of premorbid cognitive and personal characteristics with the neuropsychological changes directly associated with brain pathology. By closely observing the patient's behavior, the clinician can teach him or her about the direct and indirect effects of brain damage. The book provides guidelines both for the remediation of higher cerebral disturbances and the management of patients interpersonal problems. It presents a new perspective on disorders of self-awareness and recovery as well as deterioration phenomena after brain injury. It will be an invaluable resource for psychologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists involved in neuropsychological rehabilitation.

Now in a completely rewritten version, this definitive work covers all aspects of delirium, a frequent complication of physical illness, especially in the elderly. Unique in its range of coverage, the book traces the history of delirium from the 5th century B.C. to the present, and offers detailed discussions of its clinical features, diagnosis, pathophysiology, etiology, and treatment. This new edition fully reflects the substantial progress in understanding the disorder made over the last decade. Delirium will be very useful to geriatricians, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians as it offers detailed practical guidance on diagnosis and management of the disorder. The only English-language monograph on this subject, it contains over 2,300 references.

Cognitive neuropsychology has now established a major place in the teaching of undergraduate psychology degrees and is an important topic of postgraduate research. The subject is also of increasing interest to clinicians because of its links with devising remediation procedures for people with brain injury. Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology is the first major text to appear on this topic since the late 1980s and thus introduces the reader to a vast amount of research previously unavailable in textbook format. The book is written in a lively and engaging style which nonetheless enables the reader to get a scholarly, in-depth overview of this important field. The coverage of topics is very broad-ranging. It begins with an overview of the subject including issues such as research strategy and advances in neuroimaging. Following this are chapters on blindsight, agnosia, facial processing impairments, and the rapidly growing area of neglect. The next chapter is devoted to studies of the split brain. Two chapters then cover the enormous developments in devising functional architectures of the language system from the observation of discrete language impairments. Various aspects of memory impairments are then discussed and the book ends with a consideration of frontal lobe functions. At various points the book also covers the contribution of connectionist modelling to cognitive neuropsychology.