Behavioral Neurobiology of Aging / Edition 1

by Marie-Christine Pardon, Mark W. Bondi

Overview

This volume discusses the current state of research findings related to healthy brain aging by integrating human clinical studies and translational research in animal models. Several chapters offer a unique overview of successful aging, age-related cognitive decline and its associated structural and functional brain changes, as well as how these changes are influenced by reproductive aging. Insights provided by preclinical studies in mouse models and advanced neuroimaging techniques in humans are also presented.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642432798
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/08/2014
Series:	Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences , #10
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

From the contents: Preface.- Part 1. Epidemiologic perspective in aging.- Part 2. Cognitive and emotional perspectives in aging.- Part 3. Reproductive aging.- Part 4. Medical and psychiatric factors in aging.- Part 5. Modifiers of brain aging.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“A critical issue involved is the distinction between normal and pathological aging. This excellent new book covers this issue with an excellent review of the neuroscience of aging. Written and edited by a group of international neuroscientists, the book is a welcome addition to the psychiatric literature. … This is an exceptional book on the behavioral neuroscience of aging. Reading this informative book would enhance researchers’ and clinicians’ knowledge base.” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody’s Review Service, August, 2012)

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Michael Schrift, DO (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Description: The aging population presents one of the world's major public health care challenges. The industrialized countries currently face this challenge, but developing nations, with anticipated increases in the numbers and proportion of their elderly populations, also will soon need to deal with problems of growing geriatric populations. The concerns about the elderly population arise from the recent and continuing increases in the population age 65 and older as well as the increasing number and severity of health problems associated with aging. A critical issue involved is the distinction between normal and pathological aging. This excellent new book covers this issue with an excellent review of the neuroscience of aging. Written and edited by a group of international neuroscientists, the book is a welcome addition to the psychiatric literature.
Purpose: The purpose, according to the editors, is to "discuss the current state of research findings related to healthy brain aging by integrating human clinical studies and translational research in animal models."
Audience: The audience includes "researchers, clinicians, and students interested in the current knowledge and research challenges in neurobiological perspectives in aging as well as future research directions in aging research."
Features: The first of the book's five parts covers the epidemiology of aging and Alzheimer's disease. The cognitive and emotional aspects of aging are reviewed in part 2, with interesting chapters on successful cognitive aging, the basic neuroscience of emotion in aging, functional imaging in normal aging, functional imaging in dementia, and the neuroanatomy of aging. Part 3 explores reproductive aging and part 4 covers the psychiatric and medical aspects of aging. The last part has useful chapters on the modifiers of brain aging such as physical and mental exercise, enriched environments and cognitive activity, reproductive experience, and treatment trials in mild cognitive impairment.
Assessment: This is an exceptional book on the behavioral neuroscience of aging. Reading this informative book would enhance researchers' and clinicians' knowledge base.

Doody's Review Service