Main description:

This compelling text provides an overview of the available technology for early detection and therapeutic management of vascular risk factors to Alzheimer's before severe cognitive impairment symptoms appear. Chapters bring the reader from the trackless clinical research that has characterized Alzheimer's progress for the last 20 years, to a nexus of new ideas and concepts that can change our outlook of this dementia. In-depth examinations of various hypotheses, preventive measures, current and prospective treatments are openly and clearly explored. The author discusses in depth his proposal of the vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease which has become a mother-lode for basic and clinical studies and a key approach to the prevention of this dementia.Alzheimer's Turning Point offers professionals, students and those looking to learn more about this disorder a fresh clinical perspective of this devastating disease.

Contents:

Chapter 1

How does Alzheimer's begin and who gets it?

Chapter 2

Forming memories

Chapter 3

Masquerading as dementia

Alzheimer's --then and now

Chapter 5

Unproven hypotheses on the cause of Alzheimer's

Chapter 6

Other hypotheses on the cause of Alzheimer's disease

Chapter 7

Alzheimer noise

Chapter 8

Social contract and Alzheimer's

Chapter 9

Genetics of Alzheimer's

Chapter 10

Powering the brain

Chapter 11

Pharmaceuticals and Alzheimer's

Chapter 12

Alzheimer vascular risk factors

Chapter 13

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Advanced Aging

Chapter 14

A Personal Account of How a Scientific Hypothesis

Blooms Into a Life of Its Own

Chapter 15

Clinical tools to detect and predict individuals at risk of Alzheimer's

Chapter 16

The turning point for Alzheimer's

Chapter 17

How poor brain blood flow promotes Alzheimer's disease

Chapter 18

Interventions that may increase cerebral blood flow

Chapter 19

Great Expectations

Chapter 20

A road to new thinking

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