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Understanding Brain Aging and Dementia – A Life Course Approach

Autor Lawrence Whalley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 2015
Arguing the life course approach is the best and simplest model for tracking mental development, Lawrence J. Whalley unlocks the mysteries of brain functionality
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231163835
ISBN-10: 0231163835
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 50 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 183 x 253 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

Notă biografică

Lawrence J. Whalley is emeritus professor of mental health in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Aberdeen and honorary professor of research at the University of the Highlands and Islands. He is the author of three books on brain aging and dementia, including The Aging Brain and Dementia.

Cuprins

List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Life Course Approach
3. The Well-Connected Brain
4. Aging, Evolution, and the Brain
5. The Aging Brain
6. The Biology of the Dementias
7. The Disconnected Mind
8. Emotional Aging
9. Dementia Syndromes
10. Dementia Risk Reduction, 1: Concepts, Reserve, and Early Life Opportunities
11. Dementia Risk Reduction, 2: Midlife Opportunities to Delay Dementia Onset
12. Dementia Risk Reduction, 3: Multidomain Approaches
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Descriere

A major new synthesis of the science behind dementia, identifying the genetic factors that contribute to the pace of aging and showing how behaviors starting in childhood can influence how we age.