Neurodevelopment, aging, and cognition / Ivica Kostović [and others], editors.

Other author Kostović, Ivica, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Birkhäuser, ©1992.
Descriptionxiv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Developmental reorganization of the human association cortex during perinatal and postnatal life / Ivica Kostovic ... [et al.] -- Prenatal monoaminergic innervation of the cerebral cortex: differences between rodents and primates / B. Berger, C. Verney and P.S. Goldman-Rakic -- Ontogenetic development and decline of memory functions in nonhuman primates / Jocelyne Bachevalier and Mortimer Mishkin -- Anoxia and memoryprocesses / K. Krnjevic and Y.Z. Xu -- Brain before cognition: EEG maturation in preterm infants / Giovanni Cioni, Enrico Biagioni and CarloCipolloni -- Mechanisms of asymmetrical development of the human CNS / Richard S. Nowakowski -- Neuroanatomical bases of hemispheric functional specialization in the human brain: developmental factors / Sandra F. Witelson -- Development and aging in Down's Syndrome / K.E. Wisniewski and M. Dambska -- Alzheimer's disease and the cerebral amyloidoses / Thomas M. Wisniewski and Henryk M. Wisniewski -- Evolution of cholinergic cortical innervation after nbM-lesioning (an experimental Alzheimer model) / Adolfo Toledano.
Contents (cont) Neurodegenerative changes in aging and dementia: a comparison of Alzheimer and Lewy body type pathology / Elaine K. Perry ... [et al.] -- Cortical morphological changes in dementia / Heiko Braak and Eva Braak -- Neuroendocrine changes in aging and Alzheimer's disease / D.F. Swaab ... [et al.] -- Developing a memory "thermometer": a theoretical framework and initial results / G.J. Spilich and Stevo Knezevic -- Biological bases of specific language impairment (developmental aphasia) / Dorothy Bishop -- Brain / cognition relationships: interpreting the effects of focal brain damage / Rita Sloan Berndt -- Spreading activation model of age-related deficits in cognition / Gillian Cohen -- Memory changes in aging / Fergus I.M. Craik -- CT, MRI, and PET studies of hippocampal pathology in Alzheimer's disease / M.J. de Leon ... [et al.] -- Is Alzheimer's dementia a treatable disease / B. Winblad ... [et al.] -- Dementia of the Alzheimer type recapitulates ontogeny inversely on specific ordinal and temporal parameters / Barry Reisberg ... [et al.].
Contents (cont) Psychopharmacological aspects of antidementia agents / Stephen Curran and Ian Hindmarch -- Pharmacological treatment of Alzheimer's dementia: a review / Stevo Knezevic ... [et al.].
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92000396
ISBN0817635998 (acid-free) :
ISBN3764335998 (acid-free)