New Frontiers in Cognitive Aging
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 April 2004
- ISBN 9780198525691
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 242x162x25 mm
- Weight 790 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numeous figures 0
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Short description:
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. This volume brings together leading experts from a range of fields studying cognitive aging, including neuroscience, pharmacology, health, genetics, sensory biology, and epidemiology. 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.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Part I - Frontiers in Cognitive Aging
Don't fence us in: Probing the frontiers of cognitive aging
Part II - New Theoretical Orientations in Cognitive Aging
Cognitive aging: New directions for old theories
Does longitudinal evidence confirm theories of cognitive aging derived from cross-sectional data?
Intraindividual variability in performance as a theoretical window onto cognitive aging
Commentary: Measures, constructs, models and inferences about aging
Part III - New Directions in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging
The aging brain: Structural changes and their implications for cognitive aging
Cognitive aging: A view from brain imaging
Cognitive deficits in preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: Current knowledge and future directions
Commentary: Neuroscience frontiers of cognitive aging: Approaches to cognitive neuroscience of aging
Part IV - Frontiers of Biological and Health Effects of Cognitive Aging
Modelling longitudinal changes in old age: from co-variance structures to dynamic systems
Exploring the relationships between sensory, physiological, genetic and health measures in relation to the common cause hypothesis
New frontiers in genetic influences on cognitive aging
Hormonal effects on cognition in adults
Health, disease and cognitive functioning in old age
Broadening the context of cognitive aging: a commentary
Commentary: Framing fearful (a)symmetries: three hard questions about cognitive aging
Part V - Final Frontiers? New Research Directions, Perspectives and Imperatives
Future directions in cognitive aging: Perspectives from the National Institute on Aging
