Handbook of the aging brain/

Other Authors: Wang, E, Snyder, D. Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego: Academic Press, c1998
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Table of Contents:
  • Normal and abnormal memory: aging and Alzheimerʹs disease
  • Stress, glucocorticoids, and hippocampal aging in rat and human
  • Spatial cognition and functional alterations of aged rat hippocampus
  • Identification of molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory: the impact of gene targeting
  • Normal aging and Alzheimerʹs disease
  • Transgenic mouse models with neurofilament-induced pathologies
  • Transgenic models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimerʹs disease
  • Toward a genetic analysis of unusually successful neural aging
  • The role of the presenilins in Alzheimerʹs disease
  • Mechanisms of neuron death in neurodegenerative diseases of the elderly: role of the Lewy body
  • Microtubule-associated protein tau: biochemical modifications, degradation, and Alzheimerʹs disease
  • A novel gene in the armadillo family interacts with presenilin 1
  • Putative links between some of the key pathological features of the Alzheimerʹs brain
  • Unraveling the controversy of human prion protein diseases
  • Translational control, apoptosis, and the aging brain
  • Astrocyte senescence and the pathogenesis of Parkinsonʹs disease