Handbook of the aging brain
By: [edited by] Eugenia Wang, D. Stephen Snyder.
Contributors: Wang, E. 1945-; Snyder, D. Stephen.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Brain -- Aging.; Alzheimer's disease -- Physiological aspects.; Aging.; Brain -- physiopathology.; Alzheimer Disease.; Neurodegenerative Diseases -- etiology.
Other titles: Aging brain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Normal and abnormal memory: aging and Alzheimer's disease; title: Stress, glucocorticoids, and hippocampal aging in rat and human; title: Spatial cognition and functional alterations of aged rat hippocampus; title: Identification of molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory: the impact of gene targeting; title: Normal aging and Alzheimer's disease; title: Transgenic mouse models with neurofilament-induced pathologies; title: Transgenic models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease; title: Toward a genetic analysis of unusually successful neural aging; title: The role of the presenilins in Alzheimer's disease; title: Mechanisms of neuron death in neurodegenerative diseases of the elderly: role of the Lewy body; title: Microtubule-associated protein tau: biochemical modifications, degradation, and Alzheimer's disease; title: A novel gene in the armadillo family interacts with presenilin 1; title: Putative links between some of the key pathological features of the Alzheimer's brain; title: Unraveling the controversy of human prion protein diseases; title: Translational control, apoptosis, and the aging brain; title: Astrocyte senescence and the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease.