New Frontiers in Cognitive Aging

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-852569-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

With an ever increasing population of aging people in the western world, it is more crucial than ever that we try to understand how and why cognitive competence breaks down with advancing age; why do some people follow normal patterns of cognitive change, while others follow a path of progressive decline, with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. What can be done to prevent cognitive decline - or to avoid neurodegenerative diseases? The answers, if they come, will not emerge from research within one discipline, but from work being done across a range of scientific and medical specialities.

This volume brings together leading experts from a range of fields studying cognitive aging, including neuroscience, pharmacology, health, genetics, sensory biology, and epidemiology. Unlike other books in this area, this book is more about 'new frontiers' than past research and accomplishments. Recently cognitive aging research has taken several new directions, linking with, and benefiting from, rapid technological and theoretical advances in these neighbouring disciplines. This book provides unique interdisciplinary coverage of the topic. With each chapter including commentaries from specialists in related fields, the book provides an integrative study of the topic. For those within the fields of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and geriatrics, this volume will make an important contribution in furthering our understanding of a problem that affects us all.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, Roger

Backman, Lars

Nilsson, Lars-Goran

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tiergenetik, Reproduktion
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Geriatrie, Gerontologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenreproduktion, Verbreitung, Genetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I - Frontiers in Cognitive Aging

- 1: Roger A Dixon and Lars-Goran Nilsson: Don't fence us in: Probing the frontiers of cognitive aging

- Part II - New Theoretical Orientations in Cognitive Aging

- 2: Denise Park and Meredith Minear: Cognitive aging: New directions for old theories

- 3: Christopher Hertzog: Does longitudinal evidence confirm theories of cognitive aging derived from cross-sectional data?

- 4: David F Hultsch and Stuart W S MacDonald: Intraindividual variability in performance as a theoretical window onto cognitive aging

- 5: Leah Light: Commentary: Measures, constructs, models and inferences about aging

- Part III - New Directions in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging

- 6: Naftali Raz: The aging brain: Structural changes and their implications for cognitive aging

- 7: Lars Nyberg and Lars Backman: Cognitive aging: A view from brain imaging

- 8: Lars Backman, Brent Small and Laura Fratiglioni: Cognitive deficits in preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: Current knowledge and future directions

- 9: Roberto Cabeza: Commentary: Neuroscience frontiers of cognitive aging: Approaches to cognitive neuroscience of aging

- Part IV - Frontiers of Biological and Health Effects of Cognitive Aging

- 10: Ulman Lindenberger and Paolo Ghisletta: Modelling longitudinal changes in old age: from co-variance structures to dynamic systems

- 11: Helen Christensen and Andrew Mackinnon: Exploring the relationships between sensory, physiological, genetic and health measures in relation to the common cause hypothesis

- 12: Nancy L Pedersen: New frontiers in genetic influences on cognitive aging

- 13: Agneta Herlitz and Julie E Yonker: Hormonal effects on cognition in adults

- 14: Ake Wahlin: Health, disease and cognitive functioning in old age

- 15: Peter Graf: Broadening the context of cognitive aging: a commentary

- 16: Paul Verhaeghen: Commentary: Framing fearful (a)symmetries: three hard questions about cognitive aging

- Part V - Final Frontiers? New Research Directions, Perspectives and Imperatives

- 17: Daniel B Berch and Molly V Wagster: Future directions in cognitive aging: Perspectives from the National Institute on Aging

Über Autor(innen)

Dixon, Roger (Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) / Backman, Lars (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden) / Nilsson, Lars-Goran (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)