The Alzheimer conundrum entanglements of dementia and aging

Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The...

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1. Verfasser:	Lock, Margaret
Format:	E-Book Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2013
Ausgabe:	1
Schlagworte:	Age factors Age of onset Aging Allele Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease > Age factors Amnesia Amyloid Amyloid beta Anthropology Apolipoprotein E Biomarker Brain Brain > Aging > Molecular aspects Cardiovascular disease Caregiver Cell death Cerebrospinal fluid Clinical trial Clinician Dementia Diagnosis Disease Drug development Early-onset Alzheimer's disease Epidemic Epidemiology Family history (medicine) Family support Finding Follow-up Funding General practitioner Genetic counseling Genetic testing Geneticist Genome-wide association study Genotype Genotyping HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia Health Sciences History of Science & Technology Human subject research Inflammation MEDICAL / General Medical diagnosis Mental disorder Mental health Mild cognitive impairment Model organism Molecular aspects Molecular biology National Institute on Aging Neurodegeneration Neurofibrillary tangle Neuroimaging Neurology Neuropathology Old age Older people Older people > Mental health Oxidative stress Pathology Pharmaceutical drug Pharmaceutical industry Physician Positron emission tomography Prevalence Principal investigator Processing (Chinese materia medica) Psychiatrist Psychiatry Public health Research assistant Risk factor SCIENCE / History Scientist SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General Specialty (medicine) Symptom Syndrome Technology Toxin Uncertainty Vascular dementia Prevalence Disease Funding Research assistant Caregiver Cardiovascular disease Cerebrospinal fluid Drug development Principal investigator Human subject research Epidemiology Old age National Institute on Aging Follow-up Family history (medicine) Family support Technology Neurodegeneration Diagnosis Pharmaceutical industry Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's Association Public health Epidemic Vascular dementia Scientist Genotype Processing (Chinese materia medica) Neurofibrillary tangle Model organism Pathology Neurology Genotyping Risk factor Finding Dementia Neuroimaging Oxidative stress Biomarker Uncertainty Neuropathology Early-onset Alzheimer's disease Pharmaceutical drug Mild cognitive impairment Medical diagnosis Psychiatrist Clinician Amyloid beta Age of onset Genome-wide association study Apolipoprotein E Clinical trial Amyloid Amnesia Symptom Specialty (medicine) General practitioner Physician Inflammation Geneticist Syndrome Toxin Allele Genetic counseling Cell death Mental disorder Genetic testing Molecular biology Psychiatry Positron emission tomography
ISBN:	9780691149783, 069114978X, 1400848466, 9781400848461, 9780691168470, 0691168474
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The Alzheimer conundrum : entanglements of dementia and aging -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Orientations -- Chapter 1: Making and Remaking Alzheimer Disease -- Chapter 2: Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease -- Chapter 3: Paths to Alzheimer Prevention -- Chapter 4: Embodied Risk Made Visible -- Chapter 5: Alzheimer Genes: Biomarkers of Prediction and Prevention -- Chapter 6: Genome-Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future -- Chapter 7: Living with Embodied Omens -- Chapter 8: Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate -- Chapter 9: Transcending Entrenched Tensions -- Afterword: Portraits from the Mind -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Front Matter Table of Contents Acknowledgments Orientations Chapter 1: Making And Remaking Alzheimer Disease Chapter 2: Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease Chapter 3: Paths to Alzheimer Prevention Chapter 4: Embodied Risk Made Visible Chapter 5: Alzheimer Genes: Chapter 6: Genome-Wide Association Studies: Chapter 7: Living with Embodied Omens Chapter 8: Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate Chapter 9: Transcending Entrenched Tensions Afterword: Notes Bibliography Index
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Orientations: The Epidemic of the 21st Century -- Chapter 1: Making And Remaking Alzheimer Disease -- Chapter 2: Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease -- Chapter 3: Paths to Alzheimer Prevention -- Chapter 4: Embodied Risk Made Visible -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Chapter 5: Alzheimer Genes -- Chapter 6: Genome-Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future -- Chapter 7: Living with Embodied Omens -- Chapter 8: Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate -- Chapter 9: Transcending Entrenched Tensions -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Acknowledgments --
Afterword. Portraits from the Mind --
Contents --
Chapter 4. Embodied Risk Made Visible --
Index
Chapter 2. Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease --
Chapter 8. Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate --
Chapter 9. Transcending Entrenched Tensions --
Chapter 3. Paths to Alzheimer Prevention --
Chapter 7. Living with Embodied Omens --
Chapter 6. Genome- Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future --
Chapter 1. Making And Remaking Alzheimer Disease --
Orientations --
Chapter 5. Alzheimer Genes: Biomarkers of Prediction and Prevention --
Frontmatter --
Notes --