The Alzheimer Conundrum : Entanglements of Dementia and Aging /

Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lock, Margaret (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Alzheimer's disease > Age factors.
Alzheimer's disease.
Brain > Aging > Molecular aspects.
Dementia.
Electronic books.
Older people > Mental health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
APOE.
Alois Alzheimer.
Alzheimer disease.
Alzheimer enterprise.
Alzheimer genetics.
Alzheimer prevention.
Alzheimer world.
DNA samples.
DNA.
GWAS.
Huntington disease.
aging population.
aging populations.
aging societies.
amyloid cascade hypothesis.
amyloid cascade process.
behavioral changes.
biomarkers.
biosociality.
breast cancer.
clinical diagnosis.
clinical settings.
control samples.
dementia.
diagnosis.
divination.
early-onset.
environmental variables.
epidemiological research.
epidemiology.
epigenetics.
ethnographic research.
expert knowledge.
family practice settings.
gene function.
genes.
genetic testing.
geneticization.
genome-wide association studies.
genomics.
global economy.
late-onset.
localization theory.
medical publications.
memory clinics.
memory loss.
micro-medical management.
mild cognitive impairment.
molecular approach.
molecular biologists.
molecularization.
neuritic amyloid plaques.
neurofibrillary tangles.
neuroimaging.
prevention.
prodromal.
public health.
research.
throughput technology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Orientations
  • Chapter 1. Making And Remaking Alzheimer Disease
  • Chapter 2. Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease
  • Chapter 3. Paths to Alzheimer Prevention
  • Chapter 4. Embodied Risk Made Visible
  • Chapter 5. Alzheimer Genes: Biomarkers of Prediction and Prevention
  • Chapter 6. Genome- Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future
  • Chapter 7. Living with Embodied Omens
  • Chapter 8. Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate
  • Chapter 9. Transcending Entrenched Tensions
  • Afterword. Portraits from the Mind
  • Notes
  • Index

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