
Assessments, Treatments and Modeling in Aging and Neurological Disease
The Neuroscience of Aging
Description
Key Features
- Provides the most comprehensive coverage of the broad range of topics related to the neuroscience of aging
- Features sections on diagnosis and biomarkers of neurological aging, Alzheimer’s and stroke
- Contains an abstract, key facts, a mini dictionary of terms, and summary points in each chapter
- Focuses on neurological diseases and conditions linked to aging, environmental factors and clinical recommendations
- Includes more than 500 illustrations and tables
Readership
Neuroscientists, geriatricians, neurobiologists, experimental biologists, clinicians, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows
Table of Contents
Part I
Introductory chapters: Setting the scene for the neuroscience of aging1. The concept of productive aging
Premchand Dommaraju and Shawn Wong2. Quality of life in older people
Timo E. Strandberg3. Successful aging and diet
Ekavi N. Georgousopoulou, Duane D. Mellor and Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos4. The impact of positive social relations on the quality of life of older people. An alternative to medicalization from an integral
perspective
Luis Miguel Rondo5. The brain in life span: use of phase functional magnetic resonance
imaging
Zikuan Chen, Zeyuan Chen and Bihong T. Chen6. Neuronal structure in aging:
cytoskeleton in health and disease
Daniele Cartelli7. Sporadic Alzheimer’s triad: age, sex, and ApoE
Xin Zhang, Punam Rawal, Long Wu and Liqin Zhao8. The moderating effect of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on
inhibitory control in elderly individuals
Michel Audiffren, Nathalie Andre´, Delphine Fagot, Christian Chicherio and Ce´dric Albinet9. Alcohol use disorder pharmacotherapy options for postmenopausal females: age and gender issues and considerations
Jelena Milic, Janko Zekovic, Dunja Stankic, Ed van Beeck and Janko Samardzic10. The aging brain and brain banking
R.C. Jezewski, G.M. Halliday and C.E. ShepherdPart II
Impairments and diseases11. Dementia or no dementia in the elderly. Why?
Lewis H. Kuller12. Neuropsychology, social cognition, and loss of insight in
frontotemporal dementia
Fiadhnait O’Keeffe and Derval McCormack13. Neuroinflammation and aging
Joaeo O. Malva, Ricardo Moreira, Beatriz Martins, Joaeo Novo, Frederico C. Pereira, Ramon Raposo, Reinaldo B. Oria´ and Carlos Fontes Ribeiro14. Cortical microinfarcts and the aging brain
Eniko Kovari and Gabriel Gold15. Cerebrovascular and neuro>degenerative racial/ethnic health
disparities
Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey16. Hearing loss among the elderly
Gary Jek Chong LEE17. Aging auditory cortex: the impact of reduced inhibition on function
Bjo€rn Herrmann and Blake E. Butler18. Aging and vestibular disorders
Augusto Pietro Casani and Elena Navari19. Brain aging in HIV and retrovirals
Jasmina Boban, Majda M. Thurnher and Dusko Kozic20. Methylmercury exposure and its implications for aging
Andrew N. Shen and M. Christopher Newland21. Alcohol and the aging brain: increased alcohol sensitivity potentially magnifying oxidative stress
Candice E. Van Skike and Douglas B. MatthewsPart III
Biomarkers and diagnosis22. Brain aging: radiological biomarkers
Banu Alicioglu and Hakki Muammer Karakas23. ADAM10 as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease
Mariana Luciano de Almeida, Izabela Pereira Vatanabe, Patricia Regina Manzine, Rafaela Peron, Carlos Roberto Bueno Ju´nior and Ma´rcia Regina Cominetti24. Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers of health in elderly
individuals
Jonas Mengel-From25. DHEA as a biomarker of aging in humans and nonhuman primates:
synthesis, neuroprotection, and cognitive function
Henryk F. Urbanski26. Evaluation of subjective memory abilities in elderly people
Luigi Trojano, Gabriella Santangelo and Simona Raimo27. The functional activities questionnaire: applications to aging
Ondrej Bezdicek28. Autobiographical memory as a diagnostic tool in aging
Juan C. Mele´ndez and Encarnacio´n Satorres29. Assessment tools for subjective memory abilities in elderly people
Simona Raimo, Gabriella Santangelo and Luigi Trojano30. The Knowledge of Memory Aging Questionnaire
Celinda Reese-Melancon, Katie E. Cherry and Erin E. HarringtonPart IV
Management and treatments31. Pharmacological use of transient receptor potential (TRP) ion
channel agonists in neurological disease and aging: effects on swallowing and implications for nutrition
Noemı´ Tomsen and Pere Clave´32. Aripiprazole: features and use in the aged
Unax Lertxundi, Rafael Herna´ndez and Juan Medrano33. Cognition-enhancing drugs and applications to aging
Jelena Mili34. Creatine supplementation in the aging brain
Marina Yazigi Solis, Eimear Dolan, Guilherme Giannini Artioli and Bruno Gualano35. Photobiomodulation as a brain-boosting strategy in aging
Farzad Salehpour, Marvin H. Berman and Saeed Sadigh-Eteghad36. Innovations in deep brain stimulation in aging: a focus on
Parkinson disease
Paolo Amami37. Exergames: what they are and how they can be used to successful
aging?
Renato Sobral Monteiro-Junior, Ana Carolina de Mello Alves Rodrigues, Laı´s Francielle Francisca Felı´cio, Luiz Felipe da Silva Figueiredo and Tu´lio Brandaeo Xavier-Rocha38. Linking cognitive decline and ballroom dance as a therapeutic
intervention in the elderly
Jacqueline C. Dominguez, Maria Clarissa O. del Moral, Ma Fe P. de Guzman and Jeshya A. Chio39. Training the functionality of daily life. A new neuroscientific paradigm of cognitive training
Carmen Requena, Paula A´lvarez-Merino and Francisco Javier Belchı´40. Integrated medical and psychiatric self-management smartphone
technologies for older adults with serious mental illness
Karen L. Fortuna and Cynthia Bianco41. Psychosocial interventions for suicide prevention in the elderly:
advances and future directions
Theresa Ebo, Hannah Reich, Elizabeth Arslanoglou, Claudia Heidenreich, Jody Monkovic and Dimitris KiossesPart V
Models and modelling42. D-galactose-induced aging and brain mitochondria
Fereshteh Farajdokht, Saeed Sadigh-Eteghad and Javad Mahmoudi43. Drosophila models of neuronal aging
Vı´ctor Lo´pez del Amo, Andrea Tapia and Ma´ximo Ibo Galindo44. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) and its uses for understanding the
neuroscience of aging: applications and observation
Dilan Celebi-Birand, Melek Umay Tuz-Sasik, Narin Ilgim Ardic-Avci, Hande Ozge Aydogan, Begun Erbaba, Elif Tugce Karoglu-Eravsar, Hulusi Kafaligonul and Michelle M. Adams45. Murine models of tauopathies: a platform to study neurodegenerative diseases associated with aging
Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi and David Westaway46. Modeling nutrition and brain aging in rodents
Devin Wahl, Rahul Gokarn, Samantha M. Solon-Biet, Victoria C. Cogger, Thomas J. LaRocca, David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson
and David G. Le Couteur47. Nonhuman primates as models for aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Melissa K. Edler, Emily L. Munger, Hayley Groetz and Mary Ann Raghanti48. Linking aging and animal models to neurodegeneration: the striatum, substantia nigra, and Parkinson’s disease
Rodrigo Portes Ureshino and Ana Lo´pez Ramı´rez49. Behavioral evaluation of aging in experimental animals
Ana Perez-Villalba and Isabel Farin˜asPart VI
Resources50. Recommended resources on the neuroscience of aging
Rajkumar Rajendram and Victor R. Preedy
Product details
- No. of pages: 606
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: June 1, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128180006
- eBook ISBN: 9780128180013
About the Editors
Colin Martin
Affiliations and Expertise
Victor Preedy
Affiliations and Expertise
Rajkumar Rajendram
Affiliations and Expertise
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