Serge Gauthier is Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, McGill Center for Studies in Aging, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. Pedro Rosa-Neto is Assistant Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at McGill University, Quebec, Canada.

• Introduction to the diagnosis of dementia Serge Gauthier and Pedro Rosa-Neto; 1. Subjective cognitive complaint S. Epelbaum and B. Dubois; 2. Man with subjective complaints but abnormal CSF Machiel Pleizier and P. Scheltens; 3. When mild cognitive impairment really is Alzheimer's disease Rawan Tarawneh and John C. Morris; 4. Lost for words Paige Moorhouse; 5. Man with right-sided numbness A. Arboix and M. Grau-Olivares; 6. Don't be fooled by a misleadingly high MMSE score D. J. Burn; 7. Hemiparesis followed by dementia Y. Deschaintre, F. Massoud and G. C. Léger; 8. Young man with behavioral symptoms P. H. Robert; 9. Alzheimer atypical presentation Serge Gauthier, Sylvie Belleville, Emilie Lepage and Jean-Paul Soucy; 10. Difficulty playing tennis M. E. Growdon and G. D. Rabinovici; 11. Progressive aphasia complicated by intracerebral bleeding G. C. Léger; 12. Progressive difficulty with naming and object identification Mariana Blanco and Morris Freedman; 13. A lady with weakness, fasciculations and failing memory Shahul Hameed, Ian R. A. Mackenzie and Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung; 14. Progressive difficulty producing speech Mariana Blanco and Morris Freedman; 15. Young man with progressive speech impairment and weakness Aiman Sanosi, Ian R. A. Mackenzie and Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung; 16. Personality disintegration - it runs in the family Jette Stokholm, Peter Johannsen, Jørgen E. Nielsen and Anders Gade; 17. Man with complaints about his left arm Yannick Nadeau, Mario Masellis and Sandra E. Black; 18. The aged brain: when the pieces don't fit Bruno Franchi; 19. Hypersexuality in a 69 year old man Oscar L. Lopez and James T. Becker; 20. Man with fluctuating confusion Uwe Ehrt, Robert Perry and Dag Aarsland; 21. Man with post-operative cognitive impairment Gustavo C. Román and Carlos Bazán III; 22. Penicillin for dementia in a young man Huali Wang and Xin Yu; 23. Glucose for dementia in a young woman Christian Schmidt, Steffen Plickert, David Summers and Inga Zerr; 24. Dizzyness in someone with HIV Nicholas W. S. Davies and Bruce J. Brew; 25. Case of a young man smoking pot but with a mother who died of dementia Serge Gauthier, Pedro-Rosa Neto, Jean-Paul Soucy and Gabriel Leonard; 26. University educated man with childish behavior Ricardo Nitrini and Leonardo Caixeta; 27. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration vs solvent intoxication: a piece that does not fit the puzzle Louis Verret and Rémi W. Bouchard; 28. Man with difficulty keeping pace B. J. Kerklaan and P. Scheltens; 29. Young woman with abnormal movements but no family history Ryan V. V. Evans and Kevin M. Biglan; 30. Elderly lady with right sided visual hallucinations Will Guest, Gerald Pfeffer and Neil Cashman; 31. Man with gait impairment and difficulty reading Joseph M. Ferrara and Irene Litvan; 32. Man with problems for reading and calculating Paulo Caramelli and Mirna Lie Hosogi-Senaha; 33. Man with gait impairment and urine incontinence Eric Schmidt; 34. Falling before forgetting V. Jelic, I. Nennesmo, S. Pålhagen and B. Winblad; 35. Mixed Alzheimer's disease and Wernicke's encephalopathy M. M. Kenan and R. S. Doody; 36. Woman with dementia and hepatic disease Benjamin Lam, Mario Masellis and Sandra E. Black; 37. Young woman with dementia and cerebrovascular disease: dementia with recurrent 'stroke' attacks Masamichi Ikawa and Makoto Yoneda; 38. A young man with slow cognitive decline Marie Christie Guiot and Pedro Rosa-Neto; Index.

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