New Frontiers in Cognitive Aging 1st Edition by Roger Dixon, Lars Backman, Lars-Goran Nilsson ISBN 0198525699 978-0198525691

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ISBN 10:  0198525699

ISBN 13:  978-0198525691

Author: Roger Dixon, Lars Backman, Lars-Goran Nilsson

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.

Table of contents: 

Part 1 Frontiers in cognitive aging
1 Don’t fence us in: Probing the frontiers of cognitive aging 3
Roger A. Dixon and Lars-Göran Nilsson
Part 2 New theoretical orientations in
cognitive aging
2 Cognitive aging: New directions for old theories 19 Denise Park and Meredith Minear
3 Does longitudinal evidence confirm theories of cognitive aging derived from cross-sectional data? 41
Christopher Hertzog
4 Intraindividual variability in performance as a theoretical window onto cognitive aging 65
David F. Hultsch and Stuart W.S. MacDonald
5 Commentary: Measures, constructs, models, and inferences about aging 89
Leah L. Light

Part 3 New directions in the cognitive neuroscience of aging
6 The aging brain: Structural changes and their implications for cognitive aging 115
Naftali Raz
7 Cognitive aging: A view from brain imaging 135 Lars Nyberg and Lars Bäckman
8 Cognitive deficits in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease: Current knowledge and future directions 161
Lars Bäckman, Brent J. Small, and Laura Fratiglioni

9 Commentary: Neuroscience frontiers of cognitive aging: Approaches to cognitive neuroscience of aging 179 Roberto Cabeza
Part 4 Frontiers of biological and health effects in cognitive aging
10 Modeling longitudinal changes in old age: From covariance structures to dynamic systems 199 Ulman Lindenberger and Paolo Ghisletta
11 Exploring the relationships between sensory, physiological, genetic and health measures in relation to the common
cause hypothesis 217
Helen Christensen and Andrew Mackinnon
12 New frontiers in genetic influences on cognitive aging 235
Nancy L. Pedersen
13 Hormonal effects on cognition in adults 253 Agneta Herlitz and Julie E. Yonker
14 Health, disease, and cognitive functioning in
old age 279 Åke Wahlin

15 Broadening the context of cognitive aging: A commentary 303
Peter Graf
16 Commentary: Framing fearful (a)symmetries: Three hard questions about cognitive aging 309
Paul Verhaeghen
Part 5 Final frontiers? New research directions,
perspectives and imperatives
17 Future directions in cognitive aging research: Perspectives from the National Institute on Aging 333
Daniel B. Berch and Molly V. Wagster13 Hormonal effects on cognition in adults 253 Agneta Herlitz and Julie E. Yonker

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