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The Alzheimer Conundrum : Entanglements of Dementia and Aging / / Margaret Lock



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Autore: Lock Margaret M. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Alzheimer Conundrum : Entanglements of Dementia and Aging / / Margaret Lock Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton : , : Princeton University Press, , 2016
©2016
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1968/31
Soggetto topico: Older people - Mental health
Brain - Aging - Molecular aspects
Alzheimer's disease - Age factors
Soggetto non controllato: APOE
Alois Alzheimer
Alzheimer disease
Alzheimer enterprise
Alzheimer genetics
Alzheimer prevention
Alzheimer world
Alzheimer's disease
DNA samples
DNA
GWAS
Huntington disease
aging population
aging populations
aging societies
amyloid cascade hypothesis
amyloid cascade process
behavioral changes
biomarkers
biosociality
breast cancer
clinical diagnosis
clinical settings
control samples
dementia
diagnosis
divination
early-onset
environmental variables
epidemiological research
epidemiology
epigenetics
ethnographic research
expert knowledge
family practice settings
gene function
genes
genetic testing
geneticization
genome-wide association studies
genomics
global economy
late-onset
localization theory
medical publications
memory clinics
memory loss
micro-medical management
mild cognitive impairment
molecular approach
molecular biologists
molecularization
neuritic amyloid plaques
neurofibrillary tangles
neuroimaging
prevention
prodromal
public health
research
throughput technology
Note generali: Originally published: 2013.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- Orientations -- Making and remaking Alzheimer disease -- Striving to standardize Alzheimer disease -- Paths to Alzheimer prevention -- Embodied risk made visible -- Alzheimer genes: biomarkers of prediction and prevention -- Genome-wide association studies: back to the future -- Living with embodied omens -- Chance untamed and the return of fate -- Transcending entrenched tensions -- Portraits from the mind -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease through early detection of pre-symptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals. Based on a meticulous account of the history of Alzheimer's disease and extensive in-depth interviews, Margaret Lock highlights the limitations and the dissent associated with biomarker detection. Lock argues that basic research must continue, but should be complemented by a public health approach to prevention that is economically feasible, more humane, and much more effective globally than one exclusively focused on an increasingly harried search for a cure.
Titolo autorizzato: The Alzheimer Conundrum  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-691-16847-4
1-4008-4846-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790678703321
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