The fragile brain : the strange, hopeful science of dementia / Kathleen Taylor.
Taylor, Kathleen E. (Kathleen Eleanor), author.
2016
RC521 .T39 2016 (Mapit)
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Title The fragile brain : the strange, hopeful science of dementia / Kathleen Taylor.
Author Taylor, Kathleen E. (Kathleen Eleanor), author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780198726081 (hardcover)
0198726082 (hardcover)
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number RC521 .T39 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.83
Summary "In this sensitive and informative account of dementia science, focusing on Alzheimer's, the neuroscientist and writer Kathleen Taylor explains what we have learnt in recent years about the condition. She looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the currently dominant view of the disease-- the amyloid cascade hypothesis-- and at the identified risk factors."-- book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-310) and index.
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Fragile brains
PART 1 The Problem
Living well and growing old
Counting the costs
Brain disorders affect all of us
Discovering Dementia
Protein problems
Too much Amyloid?
Transfers in?
How to clean your brain
PART 2 Risk Factors
Interpreting risk factors
The inescapables
age, gender, and genes
Injury and surgery
Infection and inflammation
Big killers
Consumerism, literally
Exercise
Traditional vices
Unhealthy environments
Use it or lose it
What are your chances?
PART 3 Mechanism
The puzzle of Amyloid
The promise of Amyloid
Probing the frontiers
This end is only a beginning.

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