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Zusatztext detailed and accessible book Informationen zum Autor Dr Kathleen Taylor studied physiology and philosophy at the University of Oxford. After a research MSc at Stirling University, working on brain chemistry, she returned to Oxford to do a DPhil in visual neuroscience and postdoctoral work on cognitive neuroscience. In 2002 she won two writing competitions run by the Times Higher Education Supplement, one for science writing and one for an essay in the humanities/social sciences. She has written on a range of topics from consciousness to cruelty, including several books published by OUP in the last decade: Brainwashing (2004), Cruelty (2009) and The Brain Supremacy (2012). Klappentext In Fragile Brains Kathleen Taylor looks at the genetic and lifestyle factors currently linked to the development of dementia, focusing on important new research on how the immune system operates in the brain. Zusammenfassung In Fragile Brains Kathleen Taylor looks at the genetic and lifestyle factors currently linked to the development of dementia, focusing on important new research on how the immune system operates in the brain. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Fragile Brains Section 1: The Problem 2: Living well and growing old 3: Counting the costs 4: Brain disorders affect all of us 5: Discovering dementia 6: Protein problems 7: Too much amyloid 8: Transfers in? 9: How to clean your brain Section 2: Risk Factors 10: The risk of risk factors 11: The inescapables - age, gender, and genes 12: Injury and surgery 13: Infection and Inflammation 14: Big killers 15: Consumerism, literally 16: Exercise 17: Traditional vices 18: Unhealthy environments 19: Use it or lose it 20: What are your chances? Section 3: Mechanisms 21: The puzzle of amyloid 22: The promise of amyloid 23: Probing the frontiers 24: The end is only the beginning Bibliography Index ...
