Title | Neurobiology of Aging [electronic resource] : An Interdisciplinary Life-Span Approach / edited by J. Mark Ordy, Kenneth R. Brizzee |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1975 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0925-3 |
Descript | IX, 603 p. online resource |
I. Definitions, theories, methods, molecular, cellular, organ and species difference in aging -- 1. Principles of mammalian aging -- 2. Role of the nervous system in aging; correlations among life span, brain-body weight and metabolism -- 3. Relation of development and aging; pre- and postnatal differentiation of the brain as related to aging -- II. Psychophysiological changes in aging -- 4. The nervous system, behavior and aging; an interdisciplinary life-span approach -- 5. Sensory processes in man during maturity and senescence -- 6. Changes in learning and memory during aging -- 7. Two efferent systems; potential for later-life changes -- III. Neurophysiological changes in the nervous system in aging -- 8. Life span changes in the electrical activity of the human brain as reflected in the cerebral evoked response -- 9. Changes in neuromuscular relationships in aging -- 10. Changes in limbic, neuroendocrine and autonomic systems, adaptation, homeostasis during aging -- 11. Autoimmunity and aging of the nervous system -- IV. Neurochemical changes in the nervous system in aging -- 12. Neurochemical changes in composition, metabolism and neurotransmitters in the human brain with age -- 13. Age changes in the human for some enzymes associated with metabolism of catecholamines, GABA and acetylcholine -- 14. Age-related changes in nucleic acids and protein synthesis -- 15. Neurochemistry of the developing and aging mammalian brain -- 16. Changes in brain lipids in aging -- 17. Age pigment: a biochemical indicator of intracellular aging -- V. Morphological changes in the nervous system in aging -- 18. Gross morphometric analyses and quantitative histology of the aging brain -- 19. Changes in microanatomy, neurocytology and fine structure with aging -- 20. Lipofuscin; intra- and extraneuronal accumulation and regional distribution -- 21. Changes in the neuronal microenvironment associated with aging -- VI. Environmental modifiability or plasticity of the brain and neuroendocrines from maturity to senescence -- 22. Effects of alcohol on aging in the nervous system -- 23. Ionizing irradiation and aging -- VII. Neuropathology and aging -- 24. Aging changes in relation to diseases of the nervous system -- VIII. Neurobiology and aging in nonhuman primates -- 25. Neurobiology and aging in nonhuman primates -- IX. Index