Title | Aging and the Brain [electronic resource] : The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium held at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in Houston, October 1971 / edited by Charles M. Gaitz |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1995 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8503-5 |
Descript | X, 232 p. 94 illus. online resource |
Prologue -- Psychological and Epidemiological Aspects -- Cognitive Changes in Aging: Competence and Incompetence -- Epidemiological Aspects of Organic Brain Disease in the Aged -- Aspects of Neuropsychological Assessment in Patients with Cerebral Disease -- Chemical and Pathological Aspects -- Neurochemistry of Aging -- Neuropathology of Organic Brain Syndromes Associated with Aging -- Ultrastructure of Senile Dementia and of Experimental Analogs -- Physiological and Diagnostic Aspects -- Cerebral Physiology of the Aged: Influence of Circulatory Disorders -- Laboratory Adjuncts to Differential Diagnosis -- Autonomic Changes in Aging -- Differential Diagnosis of the Organic Mental Disorders in Elderly Patients -- Clinical Aspects -- The Relationship Between Organic Brain Disease and Physical Status -- Multidimensional Treatment Approaches -- Psychopharmacological Aspects of Geriatric Medicine -- Some Psychodynamic Aspects of Agedness -- Review of Proceedings: Directions for Future Research -- Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach -- Epilogue