Degenerative Disorders of the Brain

Covering a wide range of diverse age-related disorders, Degenerative Disorders of the Brain addresses disabilities that occur or have their roots in the later stages of life.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Brain circuitry and ageing in neurodegenerative disease
Chapter 2 - Alzheimer's Disease: Prodromal Stages and Dementia
Chapter 3 - Parkinson's disease
Chapter 4 - Huntington's disease
Chapter 5 - Experience-dependent modulation of neurodegenerative disorders: Huntington's disease as an exemplar
Chapter 6 - Fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome
Chapter 7 - Multiple sclerosis
Chapter 8 - Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Chapter 9 - Motor Neuron Disease
Chapter 10 - New clinical neuroscience technologies for treating neurodegenerative disorders
Chapter 11 - Conclusions and last thoughts

About the author

Darren R. Hocking is a Senior Research Fellow and ARC DECRA Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia.
John L. Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at Monash University, Australia.
Joanne Fielding is Associate Professor in the Central Clinical School at Monash University, Australia.

Summary

Covering a wide range of diverse age-related disorders, Degenerative Disorders of the Brain addresses disabilities that occur or have their roots in the later stages of life.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Hocking Fielding, Darren Bradshaw Hocking, Darren R Bradshaw Hocking, Darren R. Bradshaw Hocking
• Assisted by: John Bradshaw (Editor), John L. Bradshaw (Editor), Joanne Fielding (Editor), Darren Hocking (Editor), Darren R. Hocking (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780815382263
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8226-3
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; MEDICAL / Diseases, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology