1st Edition

Degenerative Disorders of the Brain

Edited By Darren Hocking, John Bradshaw, Joanne Fielding Copyright 2019
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

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. The book brings together an internationally recognised group of contributors to discuss frontostriatal, fronto-cerebellar and other major brain systems and structures which control and direct normal behaviour, and which... Read more

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 7Multiple sclerosis

 

Chapter 8 Dementia with Lewy Bodies

 

Chapter 9 Motor Neuron Disease

Chapter 10 New clinical neuroscience technologies for treating neurodegenerative disorders

 

Chapter 11Conclusions and last thoughts

 

Biography

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.