Although age has been recognized as a risk factor for late-onset dementia of Alzheimer type, its etiology is unknown as yet. Several age-related metabolic abnormalities may thus become important for the pathogenesis of the late-onset form. Studies at the cellular/molecular level in brain tissue are possible post mortem, but lack information on the beginning of the disorder. In this supplement, different approaches are dealt with how to induce structural and/or metabolic abnormalities in relevant cell cultures, in brain slices and in experimental animals, and how behavioral changes parallel...
Although age has been recognized as a risk factor for late-onset dementia of Alzheimer type, its etiology is unknown as yet. Several age-related metab...
Alexander Hartmann Wolfgang Kuschinsky Siegfried Hoyer
In contrast to dementia of the Alzheimer type, the subject of dementia subsequent to cerebral ischemia has been discussed rather rarely. Now this book provides a summary of the brain morphology, neurochemistry and clinical aspects of dementia subsequent to cerebral ischemia. The contributions discuss the similarities and differences between the two predominant dementia types. The broad range of aspects cover 1) the morphology and morphobiology of brain tissue during aging and under the two pathological condi- tions, 2) the neuropathochemistry of post mortem brain tissue of patients as well as...
In contrast to dementia of the Alzheimer type, the subject of dementia subsequent to cerebral ischemia has been discussed rather rarely. Now this book...
Es diirfte zu den Paradoxien der modernen und hochentwickelten Medizin zahlen, daB die durch sie erreichte Zunahme der Lebenserwartung nicht immer von k6rperlicher undloder geistiger Gesundheit begleitet wird. Nun ist Alter nicht gleichbedeutend mit Krankheit, die Zunahme von Ge brechen bis hin zur Pflegebedurftigkeit im Alter ist jedoch evident. Als im mittleren und h6heren Lebensalter gehauft und zunehmend auf tretende Erkrankungen des Gehirns sind zu nennen der Hirninfarkt, M. Parkinson, die Depression und Demenzen. Diese zumeist chronisch ver laufenden Krankheiten werden in Zukunft das...
Es diirfte zu den Paradoxien der modernen und hochentwickelten Medizin zahlen, daB die durch sie erreichte Zunahme der Lebenserwartung nicht immer von...