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Einband grossTangled Up
ISBN/GTIN

Tangled Up

The History and Science of Alzheimer's Disease
BuchGebunden
320 Seiten
Englisch
Canbury Presserscheint am10.04.2025
The only guide for the public to the science and history of Alzheimer's disease. This book can help you if you fear that you have Alzheimer's disease or if a friend or family member has Alzheimer's disease.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextThe only guide for the public to the science and history of Alzheimer's disease. This book can help you if you fear that you have Alzheimer's disease or if a friend or family member has Alzheimer's disease.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-914487-42-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2025
Erscheinungsdatum10.04.2025
Seiten320 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 153 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 27 mm
Gewicht450 g
Artikel-Nr.61824924

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Prologue

Part I Alois & Auguste (and a bit of Oskar)

Chapter 1 Dr Hoffmann's vision

Chapter 2 Mrs Deter

Chapter 3 Alois Alzheimer

Chapter 4 Munich via Heidelberg

Chapter 5 1906

Chapter 6 The Tübingen aftermath

Chapter 7 Fischer's disease

Chapter 8 Alzheimer's legacy

Part I Summary

Part II Memory and Space

Chapter 9 'You are not my type'

Chapter 10 The art of memory

Chapter 11 'Secret' memory techniques

Chapter 12 'Attention!'"

Chapter 13 'Enter the seahorse'

Chapter 14 Encoding, storage, retrieval

Chapter 15 'It's all about access'

Chapter 16 The imaginary Mrs A

Chapter 17 Spatial Disorientation

Chapter 18 'Lost in space'

Part II Summary

Part III Amyloid and Tau

Chapter 19 Glorious proteins

Chapter 20 Amyloid

Chapter 21 Beta-amyloid formation

Chapter 22 'Location, location, location… and timing'

Chapter 23 Tau

Chapter 24 'Who ordered all the phosphate?'

Chapter 25 Tau 'infection'

Chapter 26 Amyloid versus Tau

Chapter 27 The 'emergence' of the disease

Chapter 28 Biomarker technology

Chapter 29 Amyloid treatment approaches

Decreasing beta-amyloid production

Prevention of beta-amyloid accumulation

Increase of beta-amyloid removal

Chapter 30 Tau treatment approaches

Decrease of overall tau

Decrease of tau phosphorylation

Decrease phosphorylated tau accumulation

Increase phosphorylated tau removal

Chapter 31 Why have drug trials failed so far?

Phase I

Phase II

Phase III

Part III Summary

Part IV Genetics and lifestyle

Chapter 32 Genetics 101

Chapter 33 Familial Alzheimer's disease

APP

PSEN

MAPT

Chapter 34 'Modifiable' risk genes

APOE

TREM2

Chapter 35 A word on genetic testing

Chapter 36 Non-modifiable lifestyle factors

Age

Education

Hearing loss

Chapter 37 Modifiable lifestyle factors

Diabetes, hypertension and obesity

Physical activity

Diet and nutrition

Sleep

Other modifiable lifestyle risk factors

Part IV Summary

Part V Rarer forms of Alzheimer's disease

Chapter 38 Frontal variant Alzheimer's disease

Chapter 39 Posterior Cortical Atrophy

Chapter 40 Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia

Chapter 41 Corticobasal syndrome

Chapter 42 A final word on the rarer forms of Alzheimer's disease

Part V Summary

Epilogue

Further country specific links (English language)

Indexmehr