Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Living Longer, Healthier and More Meaningful Lives - Couverture rigide

Snowdon, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1841152919 ISBN 13 : 9781841152912

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This text presents the story of an ongoing, long-term study of a large group of Catholic nuns who have given Dr David Snowdon access to their medical and archival records and participate each year in comprehensive mental and physical examinations designed to measure the long-term effects of aging. They have also agreed to donate their brains upon death. So far there are 250 brains in the bank making it the world's largest of its kind. Dr Snowdon is one of the world's leading experts on Alzheimer's disease and director of the "Nun Study", a research project involving 678 Catholic sisters ranging in age from 75 to 104 and which has been running for the past 15 years. We get to know many of the nuns personally, and through them discover some of the ground-breaking work which the "Nun Study" has achieved.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Snowdon received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and he began the Nun Study there in 1986. The study is now based at the University of Kentucky, where Snowdon is a professor of neurology . He has presented his findings in leading medical journals such as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Journal of Gerontology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841152919
• ISBN 13: 9781841152912
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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