Cognitive sciences research progress [[electronic resource] /] / Miao-Kun Sun, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778007503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• ISBN: 1-60876-410-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (174 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SunMiao-Kun
• Disciplina: 153
• Soggetti: Cognitive science - Research; Philosophy of mind
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""COGNITIVE SCIENCES RESEARCH PROGRESS""; ""NOTICE TO THE READER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""SUBCELLULAR TRAFFICKING OF BACE1: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN THE CONTROL OF β-AMYLOID GENERATION""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE β-SECRETASE BACE1""; ""THE SUBCELLULAR TRANSPORT OF BACE1""; ""THE ROLE OF THE CYTOPLASMATIC DOMAIN OF BACE1 IN ITS SUBCELLULAR TRAFFICKING""; ""HOW COULD GGA 1 DEPENDENT TRAFFICKING OF BACE1 INFLUENCE Aβ GENERATION ?""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""BRAIN VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER AND APOPTOSIS: PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT AND NEURODEGENERATION""""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""VMAT2 VERSUS MONOAMINE OXIDASE""; ""DEVELOPMENTAL EXPRESSION OF VMAT2""; ""MICE LACKING VMAT2""; ""VMAT2 AND PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX""; ""PARKINSON'S DISEASE""; ""SPONSORS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IS TOO LATE: THE CASE FOR PRESYMPTOMATIC DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. THE BRAIN RESERVE HYPOTHESIS""; ""2.1. Normal Developmental Changes in the Brain during Childhood and Adolescence""""2.2. Education and Cultural Influences""; ""2.3. Genetic and Epigenetic Contributions to Brain Reserve""; ""2.4. Normal ; Brain Alterations with Aging""; ""2.5. Summary""; ""3. NEURONAL PLASTICITY""; ""3.1. Synaptic Changes with Learning""; ""3.2. Compensations in Brain Injury""; ""3.3. Summary""; ""4. MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI) AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (AD)""; ""4.1. Clinical Approach and Definition of MCI""; ""4.2. Neuropathology of MCI and AD""; ""4.3. Non-AD Neuropathologies""; ""4.4. The Amyloid Hypothesis and Disease-Modifying Treatment""""4.5. Summary""; ""5. PRESYMPTOMATIC DETECTION OF MCI AND AD""; ""5.1. Evidence for Presymptomatic Neuropathology in AD""; ""5.2. Imaging Biomarkers""; ""5.3. Serum and CSF Biomarkers""; ""5.4. Psychometric Assessments to Predict MCI or AD""; ""5.5. Summary""; ""6. OVERALL SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""6.1. The Argument for Presymptomatic Detection""; ""6.2. Future Directions""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""SEMANTICALLY MEDIATED INTEGRATION OF COGNITION IN HOMO SAPIENS: EVOLUTION, GRAMMAR, UNCERTAINTY, AND COGNITIVE ACCURACY""""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""BRAIN, BONDING, LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND EVOLUTION""; ""Bonding and the Limbic System""; ""Differentiation, Language, and Socialization""; ""Cultural Belief Systems""; ""Language, Semantics, grammar, and Cultural Variance""; ""Integration of Semantics and Grammar, Biases, and Cognition""; ""Evolution of Grammar""; ""Evolution of Subjective Cultural Classifications""; ""Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Grammar""; ""Evolution and Dominance Hierarchies""