Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry

Tom Dening is Professor of Dementia Research in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences and Head of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, UK. Prof. Dening studied Medicine at Newcastle University and trained in Psychiatry in Cambridge and Oxford. His interests include the epidemiology of mental disorders in older people, treatment of dementia and depression in older people, psychiatric services and other clinical topics. He has also published papers on neuropsychiatry, psychiatric symptoms and the history of psychiatry. Alan Thomas is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests are clinical studies in dementia with Lewy bodies, the neuropathology of late-life depression, and wider dementia research. Professor Thomas is also the Clinical Director of the Newcastle Human Brain Tissue Resource at Newcastle University and Director of Brains for Dementia Research. Robert Stewart is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics at King's College London. He has a particular interest in the nexus point of physical and mental health and leads the Clinical and Population Informatics theme of the SLAM Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health. Since its inception in 2007, Professor Stewart has served as the academic lead for the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS). John-Paul Taylor is Professor of Translational Dementia Research with the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and an Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry with the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (NTW) NHS Trust. His research focuses on the application of neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches in understanding symptom aetiology in Lewy body dementia. Professor Taylor also leads a specialist Lewy body dementia clinic in Newcastle and works in the local memory clinic.

1: Doug Gray, Carole Proctor, and Tom Kirkwood: Biological aspects of human ageing
2: John Woulfe, Doug Gray, and Carole Proctor: The ageing brain
3: Ricca Edmondson: Sociology of ageing
4: Thais Minett, Blossom CM Stephan, and Carol Brayne: Epidemiology
5: Johannes Attems and Kurt Jellinger: Neuropathology
6: Andrea Vergallo, Harald Hampel, René S. Bun, and Simone Lista: Biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease
7: Robert Barber: Clinical biomarkers in the diagnosis of dementia
8: Abdul Hye and Latha Velayudhan: Molecular genetics/molecular biology
9: Jonathan Huntley, Alan Thomas, and Robert Stewart: Psychiatric assessment of older people
10: Sean O'Dowd: Clinical cognitive assessment
11: Rowan H. Harwood and Rachel Cowan: Physical assessment
12: Sana Suri, Vyara Valkanova, Verena Heise, Claire E. Sexton, and Klaus P. Ebmeier: Neuroimaging
13: Delia Bishara: Psychopharmacology
14: Daniel W. O'Connor, Christos Plakiotis, and Peter Farnbach: Neurostimulation therapies
15: John Keady and Mike Nolan: Person- and Relationship- centred care
16: Philip Wilkinson and Ken Laidlaw: Psychological treatments: introduction
17: Ken Laidlaw and Philip Wilkinson: Cognitive behaviour therapy
18: Philip Wilkinson and Ken Laidlaw: Interpersonal therapy
19: Ian A. James and Alan Howarth: Non pharmacological interventions in care homes
20: Tom Dening and Kuruvilla George: Principles of service provision
21: K. S. Jacob and Cleusa P. Ferri: Old age psychiatry in low and middle income countries
22: Louise Robinson and Caroline A. Chew-Graham: Primary care management of older people's mental health problems
23: Sube Banerjee and Nicolas Farina: Memory assessment services
24: Fiona Thompson and Elena Baker-Glenn: Liaison old age psychiatry
25: Jo Moriarty: Social care
26: Tom Dening and Alisoun Milne: Care homes
27: Elizabeth Sampson and Karen Harrison Dening: Palliative care and end of life care
28: Tom Dening: The experience of dementia
28a: Keith Oliver: Getting a diagnosis
28b: Louise Lafortune and Carol Brayne: Screening v early diagnosis
28c: Hilary Doxford: Post diagnosis
28d: June Hennell: The end of the journey and life after dementia
29: Deepti Marchment and Dennis Chan: MCI and predementia syndromes
30: John-Paul Taylor and Benjamin R. Underwood: Alzheimer's disease
31: Robert Stewart: Vascular and mixed dementia
32: Arvid Rongve and Dag Aarsland: The lewy body dementias: Dementia with lewy bodies and Parkinson s disease dementia
33: Martina Bocchetta and Jonathan D Rohrer: Frontotemporal dementia
34: Andrew Graham: Neurological dementias
35: Roy W. Jones: Pharmacological treatments
36: Sarah Cullum and Tesema Taye: Management of dementia
37: Daniel Davis, Elizabeth Teale, and Rowan H. Harwood: Delirium
38: Anonymous: The experience of depression
39: Alan Thomas: Depressive disorders
40: Helen F.K. Chiu, Baoliang Zhong, and Joshua Tsoh: Suicide and self harm
41: Lauren Mussen and Akshya Vasudev: Manic syndromes
42: Gerard Byrne: Anxiety disorders
43: Ellen E. Lee, Baichun Hou, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste: Late onset schizophrenia
44: Julie Gosling: Personal experience: The red and the reason
45: Catherine Hatfield and Tom Dening: Severe and enduring mental illness
46: Tony Rao and Katy A. Jones: Alcohol and substance misuse
47: Maria Luisa Hanney, Stephen Tyrer, and Brian Moore: Older people with intellectual disabilities
48: Kirstie Anderson, Zheyu Xu, Urs Mosimann, and Bradley Boeve: Sleep disorders
49: Bob Woods and Gill Windle: The effect of ageing on personality
50: Sharron Hinchliff and Bianca Fileborn: Sexuality in old age
51: Julian C. Hughes: Ethics and old age psychiatry
52: Charlotte Emmett and Julian C. Hughes: Mental capacity and decision making
53: Cees Hertogh, Marike de Boer, and Simone Hendriks: Ethics of living and dying with dementia
54: Jan Oyebode and Sahdia Parveen: Carers
55: Jill Manthorpe: Elder abuse and safeguarding vulnerable adults
56: Claudio Di Lorito and Birgit Völlm: Older people as victims and perpetrators of crime
57: Desmond O'Neill and Mark J. Rapoport: Driving and psychiatric illness in later life
58: Kay Wheat: The law relating to mental capacity and mental health