Treating dementia : do we have a pill for it? / edited by Jesse F. Ballenger [and others].

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

xiv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The classification of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment : enriching therapeutic models through moral imagination / Danny George and Peter J. Whitehouse -- Notes toward a future history of treatments for cognitive failure / David Healy -- Alzheimer's disease : pathogenesis, models, and experimental therapeutics / Donald L. Price ... [et al.] -- From the periphery to the center : treating noncognitive, especially behavioral and psychological, symptoms of dementia / Annette Leibing -- Pharmacologic treatment of dementia : a clinician's view / Alan A. Anderson -- Managing Dad / Judith Levine -- Making sense of the language of benefit for Alzheimer's disease treatments / Jason H.T. Karlawish -- Science and marketing : the promotion of donepezil in the primary research literature / John R. Gilstad and Thomas E. Finucane -- Profiling drugs and diseases : the shaping, making, and marketing of drugs for Alzheimer's disease / Rein Vos -- Can we fix this with a pill? : qualities of life and the aging brain / Peter J. Whitehouse -- Necessary inventions : antidementia drugs and heightened expectations for aging in modern American culture and society / Jesse F. Ballenger -- Truth and hope in drug development and evaluation in Alzheimer's disease / Tiago Moreira -- APOE genotyping, risk estimates, and public understanding of susceptibility genes / Margaret Lock and Adam Hedgecoe -- Developing drugs for dementia : hope, hype, and hypocrisy / Peter V. Rabins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.