Functional neurobiology of aging /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, CA :
Academic Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to concepts in aging research
- Age-specific rates of neurological disease
- Nature versus nurture in the aging brain
- Neurochemistry of receptor dynamics in the aging brain
- Epidemiology of neural aging
- Demography and epidemiology of age-associated neuronal impairment
- Neuropsychology of human aging
- Memory changes with aging and dementia
- Histology of age-related cortical changes in humans
- Types of age-related brain lesions and relationship to neuropathologic diagnostic systems of Alzheimer's disease
- Morphological changes in human cerebral cortex during normal aging
- Longevity and brain aging : the paradigm of centenarians
- Alzheimer's disease
- Regional and laminar patterns of selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease
- Patterns of cortical neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease : subgroups, subtypes, and implications for staging strategies
- Non-Alzheimer's age-associated dementing disorders
- Vascular dementia
- Frontotemporal dementias : from classification problems to pathogenic uncertainties
- Progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration
- Neurobiology of disorders with Lewy bodies
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ Parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam
- In vivo imaging of aging brain
- Brain energy metabolism : cellular aspects and relevance to functional brain imaging
- Functional imaging in cognitively intact aged people
- Functional brain studies of the neurometabolic bases of cognitive and behavioral changes in Alzheimer's disease
- Biochemical correlates of memory impairments
- Cholinergic basal forebrain systems in the primate central nervous system : anatomy, connectivity, neurochemistry, aging, dementia, and experimental therapeutics
- Glutamate receptors in aging and Alzheimer's disease
- Tau phosphorylation
- Heredity basis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
- Etiology, genetics, and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease
- Rodent models of age-related memory impairments
- Genetically engineered models of human age-related neurogenerative diseases
- Nonhuman primate and other vertebrate models of brain aging
- Cognitive aging in nonhuman primates
- Brain aging in Strepsirhine primates
- Age-related morphologic alterations in the brain of old world and new world antrhopoid monkeys
- The study of brain aging in great apes
- Neurobiological models of aging in the dog and other vertebrate species
- Interventions
- Estrogens and Alzheimer's disease
- Cholinergic treatments of Alzheimer's disease
- Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant therapies in Alzheimer's disease
- Vision
- The retina in aging and in Alzheimer's disease
- Pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy
- Color vision, object recognition, and spatial localization in aging and Alzheimer's disease
- Hearing
- Anatomical and neurochemical bases of presbycusis
- Age, noise, and ototoxic agents
- Auditory temporal processing during aging
- Neurophysiological manifestations of aging in the peripheral and central auditory nervous system
- Genetics and age-related hearing loss
- Animal models of presbycusis and the aging auditory system
- The development of animal models for the study of presbycusis : building a behavioral link between perception and physiology
- Rehabilitation for presbycusis
- Chemical senses
- Olfaction and gustation in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease
- Locomotion : basal ganglia and muscular functions
- Functional impairments in humans
- Aging effects on muscle properties and human performance
- Parkinson's disease : symptoms and age dependency
- Pathology and biochemistry of aging and disease of basal ganglia
- The basal ganglia dopaminergic systems in normal aging and Parkinson's disease
- Huntington's disease
- Animal models
- Biochemical and anatomical changes in basal ganglia of aging animals
- Homeostasis : hypothalamus and related systems
- Reproduction and the aging brain
- Male sexual behavior during aging
- Sexual behavior in aging women
- Factors influencing the onset of female reproduction senescence
- Female sexuality during aging
- Hypothalamic neuropeptide gene expression in postmenopausal women
- Neuroendocrine aspects of female reproductive aging
- Hypothalamic changes relevant to reproduction in aging male rodents
- Metabolism and the aging brain
- Regulation of energy intake in old age
- Thermoregulation during aging
- Biological rhythms and the aging brain
- Sleep and hormonal rhythms in humans
- Circadian rhythms and sleep in aging rodents
- Glucocorticoid secretion and the aging brain
- Glucocorticoids and the aging brain : cause of consequence?
- Growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor-1, and the aging brain
- Autonomic nervous system and the aging brain
- The aged sympathetic nervous sytem
- Appendix. Basic genetic concepts