Imaging the aging brain
Jagust, WilliamContributor
D'Esposito, MarkContributor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2009.
This text contains chapters from experts in the fields of brain imaging, clinical neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience who have studied the aging brain. The topics covered include technical factors in brain imaging, pathological basis of age-related structural and functional changes, and much more.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text contains chapters from experts in the fields of brain imaging, clinical neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience who have studied the aging brain. The topics covered include technical factors in brain imaging, pathological basis of age-related structural and functional changes, and much more.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: still more questions than answers / William Jagust and Mark D'Esposito -- Methodological and conceptual issues in the study of the aging brain / Mark D'Esposito, William Jagust, and Adam H. Gazzaley -- Neuropathology of aging / Dara L. Dickstein, John H. Morrison, and Patrick R. Hof -- A systems approach to the aging brain : neuroanatomic changes, their modifiers, and cognitive correlates / Naftali Raz and Kristen M. Kennedy -- Dopaminergic modulation of cognition in human aging / Shu-Chen Li ... [et al.] -- Cognitive reserve and aging / Yaakov Stern -- Compensatory reorganization of brain networks in older adults / Cheryl L. Grady -- Cross-species imaging applied to the aging brain : dissociating Alzheimer's disease from normal aging / Sidonie T. Jones and Scott A. Small  -- Genetics and imaging in Alzheimer's disease / Susan Y. Bookheimer -- Imaging cognitive decline in aging : predicting decline with structural imaging / Jeffrey Kaye -- The early detection of Alzheimer's disease with positron emission tomography / Rachel Mistur ... [et al.] -- Structural imaging of mild cognitive impairment / Clifford R. Jack, Jr. -- Functional imaging with FDG-PET in mild cognitive impairment / Karl Herholz -- Amyloid imaging and (what is "normal"?) aging / William E. Klunk and Chester A. Mathis -- Differential diagnosis of dementia using functional neuroimaging / Eric Salmon, Fabienne Collette, and Gaëtan Garraux -- MRI and the differential diagnosis of dementia / António J. Bastos-Leite and Philip Scheltens -- White matter hyperintensities in aging and dementia / Adriane Mayda, Mitsuhiro Yoshita, and Charles DeCarli -- Functional MRI studies in aging and early Alzheimer's disease : predicting clinical decline / Reisa Sperling -- MRI as a surrogate marker in clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease / Frank Jessen and Harald Hampel -- Brain imaging in the evaluation of putative Alzheimer's disease-slowing, risk-reducing and prevention therapies / Eric M. Reiman and Jessica B.S. Langbaum -- Databasing the aging brain / John Darrell Van Horn and Arthur W. Toga.
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