Kathleen Taylor

The Fragile Brain

The strange, hopeful science of dementia

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Produktbeschreibung

In Fragile Brains Kathleen Taylor looks at the genetic and lifestyle factors currently linked to the development of dementia, focusing on important new research on how the immune system operates in the brain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780198726081
• ISBN-10: 0198726082
• Artikelnr.: 45561766

Autorenporträt

Dr 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 2002 she won two writing competitions run by the Times Higher Education Supplement, one for science writing and one for an essay in the humanities/social sciences. She has written on a range of topics from consciousness to cruelty, including several books published by OUP in the last decade: Brainwashing (2004), Cruelty (2009) and The Brain Supremacy (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Fragile Brains
Section 1: The Problem
2: Living well and growing old
3: Counting the costs
4: Brain disorders affect all of us
5: Discovering dementia
6: Protein problems
7: Too much amyloid
8: Transfers in?
9: How to clean your brain
Section 2: Risk Factors
10: The risk of risk factors
11: The inescapables - age, gender, and genes
12: Injury and surgery
13: Infection and Inflammation
14: Big killers
15: Consumerism, literally
16: Exercise
17: Traditional vices
18: Unhealthy environments
19: Use it or lose it
20: What are your chances?
Section 3: Mechanisms
21: The puzzle of amyloid
22: The promise of amyloid
23: Probing the frontiers
24: The end is only the beginning
Bibliography
Index