Kathleen Taylor ( Research Visitor at the Department of Physiology

Dementia

A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kathleen Taylor offers a clear guide to dementia, covering its history and its definition, different types and their symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, and the underlying science. She also explains why we still have no cure for dementia, and looks at current research which could soon change that.

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Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 114mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780198825784
• ISBN-10: 0198825781
• Artikelnr.: 56752703

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Taylor studied physiology and philosophy at the University of Oxford. After a research MSc at Stirling University, working on brain chemistry, she returned to Oxford to do a DPhil in visual neuroscience and postdoctoral work on cognitive neuroscience. In 2003 she won two national writing awards , and decided to leave the uncertain and challenging world of academic science for the even more uncertain and challenging world of science writing. Her interests range across brain research and psychology - from consciousness to cruelty, dyslexia to dementia. Her work includes four books published by OUP: Brainwashing (about psychological manipulation), Cruelty (why people choose to hurt others), The Brain Supremacy (how neuroscience is changing society), and The Fragile Brain (dementia).

Inhaltsangabe

1: The challenge of dementia
2: What causes dementia?
3: Beyond amyloid
4: Risk factors
5: Diagnosis and treatment
6: The future of dementia
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