Description |
xvii, 457 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
Contents |
Pt. I. History. 1. The Early Story of Alzheimer Disease / Katherine L. Bick -- Pt. II. Clinical Presentation. 2. Clinical Presentation and Course of Alzheimer Disease / John C. Morris. 3. Noncognitive Symptoms of Alzheimer Disease / Marshal F. Folstein and Frederick W. Bylsma. 4. Neuropsychology of Alzheimer Disease / David P. Salmon and Mark W. Bondi. 5. Clinical Genetics of Familial Alzheimer Disease / Thomas D. Bird. 6. Brain Imaging in Alzheimer Disease / Norman L. Foster, Satoshi Minoshima and David E. Kuhl -- Pt. III. Epidemiology. 7. Epidemiology of Dementia and Alzheimer Disease / Claudia H. Kawas and Robert Katzman. 8. Alzheimer Disease Among Different Ethnic and Racial Groups / Jennifer J. Manly, Diane M. Jacobs and Richard Mayeux -- Pt. IV. Confounding Disorders. 9. Pick's Disease: Frontotemporal Dementia / Andrew Kertesz and David G. Munoz. 10. Vascular Cognitive Impairment: What Else Do We Need to Learn? / Zoe Arvanitakis and Vladimir Hachinski. 11. The Prion Diseases / Stanley B. Prusiner, Jiri Safar and Fred E. Cohen / [et al.]. 12. Dementia with Lewy Bodies / Lawrence A. Hansen -- Pt. V. Anatomic Pathology. 13. The Neuropathology of Alzheimer Disease and the Structural Basis of Its Cognitive Alterations / Robert D. Terry, Eliezer Masliah and Lawrence A. Hansen. 14. The Cellular Basis of Cortical Disconnection in Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementing Conditions / Patrick R. Hof and John H. Morrison. 15. The Neurobiology of Aging in Nonhuman Primates / Lary C. Walker and Linda C. Cork. 16. Transgenic Animal Models of Alzheimer Disease / Eliezer Masliah -- Pt. VI. Biochemical Pathology. 17. Alzheimer Disease: Neurochemical Aspects / Joseph B. Martin. 18. Cholinergic Systems in Alzheimer Disease / Changiz Geula and M.-Marsel Mesulam. 19. Biology of [beta]-Amyloid Precursor Protein and the Mechanism of Alzheimer Disease / Dennis J. Selkoe. 20. Molecular Genetics of Alzheimer Disease / Peter H. St. George-Hyslop. 21. Function and Dysfunction of the Presenilins / Sangram S. Sisodia, Gopal Thinakaran and David R. Borchelt / [et al.]. 22. Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer Disease / G. William Rebeck and Bradley T. Hyman. 23. Apoptosis in Alzheimer Disease / Carl W. Cotman, Kathryn J. Ivins and Aileen J. Anderson. 24. Cell Biology of Tau and Cytoskeletal Pathology in Alzheimer Disease / Vanessa Vogelsberg-Ragaglia, John Q. Trojanowski and Virginia M.-Y. Lee. 25. Trophic Factor Therapy for Neuronal Death / Daniel A. Peterson and Fred H. Gage. 26. Role of Inflammatory Processes and Microglial Activation in Alzheimer Disease / Edith G. McGeer and Patrick L. McGeer. 27. Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer Disease / William R. Markesbery and William D. Ehmann -- Pt. VII. Therapy. 28. The Treatment of Noncognitive Symptoms / Peter V. Rabins. 29. Clinical Trials in Alzheimer Disease / Leon J. Thal |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Alzheimer's disease.
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Alzheimer Disease.
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Author |
Terry, Robert D.
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LC no. |
99028977 |
ISBN |
0781715032 : |
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