Brain and longevity
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Bibliographic Information
Brain and longevity
(Research and perspectives in longevity)
Springer, c2003
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Proceedings of the Fondation IPSEN international symposium on 'Brain and Longevity', Paris, 8 October 2001-Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this third volume on longevity Fondation Ipsen has again collected the most recent results in research on genes and diet in the evolution of human longevity, educational level and longevity, cognitive impairment and survival at older age and other contributions. The preponderance of relatively short - compared to long-lived organisms suggests that morphogenesis is easier to accomplish than is maintenace of soma, whereas the broad range of longevities of organisms demonstrates that maintaining soma for extended periods of time is possible. The underlying assumption of "disposable soma" theory of aging is that the expense of maintaining somatic cells depends on their contribution to the welfare of the germ cells.
Table of Contents
Time and longevity: an explanation of the gap between genes and brains?.-Life history and demographic aspects of aging in the long-lived turtle.- Lipoprotein genes and diet in the evolution of human intelligence and longevity.-Neural capital and life span evolution among primates and humans.-How did longevity promote brain expansion during primate evolution?.-Educational level and longevity.-Incidence of dementia related to medical, psychological and social risk factors: a longitudinal cohort study during a 25-year period.-Cognitive impairment and survival at older age.-What do we know about the cognitive status of supercentenarians?.-IQ at age 11 and longevity: results from a follow-up of the Scottish mental survey 1932.-Paths to longevity in the highly intelligent Terman cohort.-Subject index
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