New Frontiers in Cognitive Aging - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198525699 ISBN 13 : 9780198525691

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

An integrative, multi-disciplinary study of cognitive aging

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

With an ever increasing population of aging people in the western world, it is more crucial than ever that we try to understand how and why cognitive competence breaks down with advancing age; why do some people follow normal patterns of cognitive change, while others follow a path of progressive decline, with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. What can be done to prevent cognitive decline - or to avoid neurodegenerative diseases? The answers, if they come, will not emerge from research within one discipline, but from work being done across a range of scientific and medical specialities. This volume brings together leading experts from a range of fields studying cognitive aging, including neuroscience, pharmacology, health, genetics, sensory biology, and epidemiology. Unlike other books in this area, this book is more about 'new frontiers' than past research and accomplishments. Recently cognitive aging research has taken several new directions, linking with, and benefiting from, rapid technological and theoretical advances in these neighbouring disciplines. This book provides unique interdisciplinary coverage of the topic. With each chapter including commentaries from specialists in related fields, the book provides an integrative study of the topic. For those within the fields of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and geriatrics, this volume will make an important contribution in furthering our understanding of a problem that affects us all.

Revue de presse

Most of the individual chapters are easy to understand even for the non-specialist in cognitive neuroscience . . . as a non-cognitive neuroscientist, I found it extremely interesting . . . for some who wish to appraise themselves of the state of the art and future areas of exploration this would be fruitful reading. (The Lancet Neurology, Vol 3)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198525699
• ISBN 13: 9780198525691
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Éditeur: Dixon Roger, Backman Lars, Nilsson Lars-Goran
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Ufficio Anagrafiche Messaggerie; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie