Aging and the Brain: The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium held at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in Houston, October 1971C. Gaitz |
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Preface | 1 |
Epidemiological Aspects of Organic | 15 |
Aspects of Neuropsychological Assessment | 29 |
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abnormal acid acute age changes aging brain aging process Alzheimer's disease Amer amyloid arterial arteriosclerosis associated atrophy behavior Benton biological blood pressure cardiac cells cerebral blood flow cerebral circulation cerebrovascular disease cerebrovascular insufficiency chronic brain syndrome circulatory clinical cognitive correlation cortex cortical decline decrease deficits degeneration deterioration diagnosis disorders drugs effects Eisdorfer elderly etiology factors Figure fluoxymesterone focal function geriatric patients Geront hemisphere human hypoxia impairment improvement increase individual intellectual learning lesions lipofuscin loss Malamud mental metabolic mitochondria myelin neurites neurochemistry neurofibrillary tangles Neurology neurons normal Obrist observed occur old age older persons organic brain disease organic brain syndrome oxygen pathological percent physiological Pick's disease pigment presenile dementia problems psychiatric psychological reaction relationship response result Roth Samorajski senescence senile dementia senile plaques sensory showed significant social Strehler studies subjects symposium symptoms Terry therapeutic thioridazine tissue treatment vascular disease Wiśniewski