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Overview
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, becoming stricken with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alheimer'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 neighboring disciplines. This book provides unique interdisciplinary coverage of the topic. With each chapter including commentaries from other specialists in related fields, the book provides 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 all of us.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: David O. Staats, MD(University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)Description: This multiauthored book on cognitive aging is a publication stemming from the Whistler conference on neurocognitive aging. It reflects Swedish, Canadian, and American progress in the field.
Purpose: The purpose it to review current developments in neurocognitive aging, and the book is a beautiful summary of the Whistler conference.
Audience: The audience is primarily psychologists, neurologists, and brain and dementia researchers; clinicians are not the primary audience. The authors are all experts in the field.
Features: The book has three main divisions, covering theoretical orientations in cognitive aging, the neuroscience of cognitive aging, and the health effects of cognitive aging. It is beautifully illustrated and constructed. The review nature of this book presupposes an advanced knowledge of cognition and cognitive aging.
Assessment: This book is limited by the rapid advances in the field and the time gap in preparation and publication of such a work. The writing is verbose in some places and jejune in others. The references are well cited and pertinent. Specialists in the field will find the beauty of this book's printing enticing.
3 Stars from Doody