Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Keith Josephs is Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Co-director of the Neurodegenerative Research Group at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA. Federico Rodriguez-Porcel is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Movement Disorders and Behavioral Neurology Divisions at the Medical University of South Carolina, South Carolina, USA. Rhonna Shatz is the Bob and Sandy Heimann Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research and Education and Director of the Cognitive Disorders Clinic at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Daniel Weintraub is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Psychiatrist at the Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center (PADRECC) at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA. Alberto Espay is Professor and Endowed Chair of the James J and Joan A Gardner Center for Parkinson's disease at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

1. Missing the Diagnosis Altogether; 2. Misidentifying the Impaired Cognitive Domain; 3. Missing Important Clues in the History; 4. Failure of Pattern Recognition; 5. Difficult to Characterize Cognitive/Behavioral Disorders; 6. Clinical Findings that are Subtle; 7. Misinterpreting Test Results; 8. Attributing Findings to a Known or Suspected Disorder; 9. Missing Radiographic Clues; 10. Management Misadventures.