have enjoyed some success in compensating for impaired functions in mild to moderate dementia patients via spared functioning (e.g., the use of implicit or procedural learning to compensate for episodic memory loss). As Benke points out, cognitive intervention is of limited use in advanced dementia, but of course this is no a rgument for withholding cognitive treatment from patients in the earlier stages of dementia. The main theme that can be extrapolated from this book regards the importance of multivariate differentiation of various ND types, both for improving our understanding of the structural and functional organization of memory function and dysfunction, and for detecting these diseases in their preclinical stage in hopes of impeding the course of dementia. Because the differentiation of ND spans all levels of analysis, scientists, medical doctors, and clinicians alike will find this volume most valuable, instructive, and thought-provoking.
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