Alzheimer's disease : from basic research to clinical applications /

As human longevity continues to be extended, so will the impact of age-associated dementia on individual lives and society. Alzheimers disease as the most common cause of dementia in the elderly remains a sentinal problem and its underlying pathology is still poorly understood. Available therapeutic...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gertz, H.-J, Arendt, Th
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wien ; New York : Springer, [1998]
Series:Journal of neural transmission. Supplementum ; 54.
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Table of Contents:
  • Alzheimer's disease: the size of the problem, clinical manifestation and heterogeneity
  • Progression of Alzheimer's disease: variability and consistency: ontogenic models, their applicability and relevance
  • Mild cognitive impairment- an early stage of Alzheimer's disease?
  • Prognosis of mild cognitive impairment in the elderly
  • Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in an elderly community sample
  • Increase of optical illusion in demented patients
  • Age and dementia effect on neuropsychological test performance in very old age- influence of risk factors for dementia
  • Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease: a critical update
  • Evolution of Alzheimer's disease related cortical lesions
  • What are the relations between Lewy body disease and AD?
  • Influence of coincidental vascular pathology on symptomatology and course of Alzheimer's disease
  • Corpus callosum in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia- a quantitative magnetic resonance study
  • What do we learn from a few familial Alzheimer's disease cases?
  • Aberrancies in signal transduction and cell cycle related events in Alzheimer's disease
  • Mechanisms of cell death in Alzheimer's disease- immunopathology
  • Pathological immuno-reactions of glial cells in Alzheimer's disease and possible sites of interference
  • Therapeutic strategies based on immunological hypotheses of Alzheimer's disease
  • Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease during aging. Impacts.