Overview
- Comprehensively discusses the use of animal models as a tool for understanding cognition and the aging process
- Provides substantive background on the newest and most widely used animal models in studies of cognition and aging
- Details the normal and pathological processes of brain aging of humans in relation to animal models
- Reviews the role of frontal cortical deficits and executive function in primates as related to humans as well as the use of transgenic modulation in mice to model Alzheimer’s and other age-related diseases
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Aging Medicine (AGME)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Significant improvements in lifestyle and medical science are leading to an ever increasing elderly population in the United States and other developed nations. The U.S census bureau estimates that the number of people over 65 will nearly double by 2030, and that the elderly will comprise nearly one-fifth of the world’s entire population within the next 20 years. In Animal Models of Human Cognitive Aging, Jennifer Bizon, Alisa Woods, and a panel of international authorities comprehensively discuss the use of animal models as a tool for understanding cognitive changes associated with the aging process. The book provides substantive background on the newest and most widely used animal models in studies of cognition and aging, while detailing the normal and pathological processes of brain aging of humans in relation to those models. Additional chapters comprehensively review frontal cortical deficits and executive function in primates as related to humans, and the use of transgenic modulation in mice to model Alzheimer’s and other age-related diseases. Groundbreaking and authoritative, Animal Models of Human Cognitive Aging provides a valuable resource for Neuroscientists, Gerontological Scientists and all aging medicine researchers, while serving as a primer for understanding current brain aging studies.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This multiauthored series of essays describe animal models of human cognitive aging. … The audience includes the community, working in neurobiology and interested in age-related changes in brain function. The authors are all experts in this area. … Everyone interested in experimental models of the aging of the human brain will derive timely and useful information by delving into this excellent book." (David O. Staats, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animal Models of Human Cognitive Aging
Editors: Jennifer L. Bizon, Alisa Woods
Series Title: Aging Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-422-3
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-996-3Published: 12 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-803-4Published: 22 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-59745-422-3Published: 12 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Topics: Neurosciences