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Aging of the brain and Alzheimer's disease : proceedings of the 14th International Summer School of Brain Research, held at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26-30 August 1985 /
AGING OF THE BRAIN AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier,
1986.
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| Colección: | Progress in brain research ;
v. 70. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Aging of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Section I
- Diagnosis; Chapter 1. Clinical approach to dementia; Chapter 2. Cognitive, emotional and behavioral dysfunctions in aging and dementia; Chapter 3. Interrelations among the lesions of normal and abnormal aging of the brain; Chapter 4. Age-related changes in Down syndrome brain and the cellular pathology of Alzheimer disease; Chapter 5. Measurement and imaging of cerebral function in ageing and dementia
- Chapter 6. The endogenous components of the event-related potential
- a diagnostic tool?Section II
- Alterations in the Brain; Chapter 7. The current status of the cortical cholinergic system in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease; Chapter 8. Monoamines and myelin components in aging and dementia disorders; Chapter 9. Neuropeptide changes in aging and Alzheimer's disease; Chapter 10. Cortical neurochemistry in Alzheimer-type dementia; Chapter 11. Lipofuscin: characteristics and significance
- Chapter 12. Ratio of pyramidal cells versus non-pyramidal cells in the human frontal isocortex and changes in ratio with ageing and Alzheimer's diseaseChapter 13. Cationshifts and excitotoxins in Alzheimer and Huntington disease and experimental brain damage; Chapter 14. Dendritic proliferation in the aging brain as a compensatory repair mechanism; Chapter 15. Neuronal cell membranes and brain aging; Chapter 16. Aging and circadian rhythms; Chapter 17. Neuronal cytoskeleton in aging and dementia; Section III
- Etiological Factors and Animal Models
- Chapter 18. DNA damage, DNA repair and the genetic basis of Alzheimer's diseaseChapter 19. Transcriptional and translational regulatory mechanisms during normal aging of the mammalian brain and in Alzheimer's disease; Chapter 20. Cell-specific pathology in neural systems of the temporal lobe in Alzheimer's disease; Chapter 21. The old animal as a model in research on brain aging and Alzheimer's disease/senile dementia of the Alzheimer type
- Chapter 22. Behavioral and biochemical effects of nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesions: implications and possible relevance to understanding or treating Alzhei- mer's diseaseChapter 23. Experimental studies on the induction and prevention of retrograde degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons; Chapter 24. Scrapie and its association with 'amyloid-like' fibrils and glycoproteins encoded by cellular genes: an animal model for human dementia; Chapter 25. Aluminum: a role in degenerative brain disease associated with neurofibril- lary degeneration
- Section IV
- Therapeutic Strategies