Abstract
An expert book with a unique integrative view of a neurologist and a psychologist presents instruments that allows you correct and early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other brain diseases in the elderly. A comprehensive publication will guide you through the most common short tests, complex psychodiagnostic methods, questionnaires of mood and activities of daily living.
It offers practical approaches and useful information along with many examples and quizzes verifying professional competence in instruments. The first guide on the market offers authors' experience with psychometric approaches to professionals who are interested in diseases of the brain in old age (neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, psychologists, social workers, students and others).
There are normative tables and cut-off scores for tests and questionnaires found just in the Czech Republic. The second edition is enriched with the unique and innovative original Czech ALBA and PICNIC tests and extends some of the findings in the MoCA and MMSE tests.
The publication refers to instructional videos on how to properly perform and evaluate selected tests. It also shows forms of selected tests.
Both are available at www.nudz.cz/ adcentrum.