Aging brain and dementia : new trends in diagnosis and therapy : proceedings of a symposium held in Padova, Italy, September 22-24, 1988
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Aging brain and dementia : new trends in diagnosis and therapy : proceedings of a symposium held in Padova, Italy, September 22-24, 1988
（Neurology and neurobiology, v. 54）
Liss, c1990
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Description
This volume offers a full account of the processes occurring in both the normal aging and pathological brain. Using a multidisciplinary approach, it covers biological and clinical investigations of brain function. It examines, in detail, epidemiological, clinical, biochemical, psychological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of aging brain and dementia. The book offers vital studies of cerebral metabolism and function that link basic and clinical research. By applying such new technologies as PET, NMR and SPECT, experts can study biochemical and metabolic phenomena of the human brain. These studies not only underscore the cellular and subcellular phenomena occurring in the brain, but help establish a demarcation of a disease state from a normal state. Specifically, these new findings augment the knowledge of when an impairment of metabolism and of neurotransmission is still functional and therefore reversible and when it becomes morphological and irreversible.
Table of Contents
- EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL ASPECTS
- An Overview of Recent Advances in Alzheimer's Disease Research (Z. Khachaturian, et al.)
- Clinical Aspects of the Dementia: A Classification (F. Gerstenbrand, et al.)
- BASIC RESEARCH ASPECTS
- Genetic Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease (N. Schupf, et al.)
- Alterations of Protein Metabolism in the Aging Brain (A. Lajtha)
- COLOR FIGURE SECTION
- Modulation of Lymphocytes Muscarinic Receptors by Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Dementia (P. Ferrero, et al.)
- Metabolic Fingerprints of Neuroactive Drugs (M. Dam, et al.)
- NEW TRENDS IN DIAGNOSIS
- The Motor Disorder of Alzheimer's Dementia: Clinical and PET Studies (P. Tyrell, et al.)
- Normal Aging and Dementia: Anatomic and Functional Brain Imaging (P. Jolles, et al.)
- NEW TRENDS IN THERAPY
- Nicergoline: Pharmacological Properties and Clinical Studies in Aging Brain (A. Rossi, et al.)
- Acetyl-L-Carnitine: An Anti-Aging Agent for the Treatment of Dementia?
- (M. Calvani, et al.)
- Index.
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