Concepts of Alzheimer disease
Subtitle: biological, clinical, and cultural perspectives
By: edited by Peter J. Whitehouse, Konrad Maurer, and Jesse F. Ballenger
Contributors: Whitehouse, Peter J; Maurer, Konrad, 1943-; Ballenger, Jesse F
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Alzheimer's Association; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer's disease -- Genetic aspects; Alzheimer's disease -- Social aspects
Description: The origin of this collection of essays was a 1997 symposium held to celebrate the life, legacy, and work of Alois Alzheimer, who described the disease in 1907. One of the first chapters of the book tells the fascinating story of how the case notes for Alzheimer's article were recently discovered in the archives of his department in Frankfurt. In a book focused on the history of Alzheimer's disease, we can see the evolution of our concepts of this disease. It was described clinically at first and then pathologically. In the 1970s and 1980s, the disorder was viewed as a neurochemical entity (the cholinergic hypothesis). Today, we consider Alzheimer's disease a genetic disorder (related to chromosomes and apolipoprotein E). How will we view it in the future?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index