Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer's Disease

By Suzanne Craft

Book Overview

Insulin Action in the Brain and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease by Carl Ronald Kahn and Ryo Suzuki.- The Brain-insulin Connection, Metabolic Diseases and Related Pathologies by Kyriaki Gerozissis.- Insulin Mediated Neuroplasticity in the Central Nervous System by Lawrence P. Reagan.- Stress Hormones and Neuroplasticity in the Diabetic Brain by Alexis M. Stranahan and Mark P. Mattson.- Diabetes and the Brain - an Epidemiologic Perspective by Lenore J. Launer.- Cognition in Type 2 Diabetes: Brain Imaging Correlates and Vascular and Metabolic Risk Factors by Geert Jan Biessels.- The Relationship between the Continuum of Elevated Adiposity, Hyperinsulinemia, and Type 2 Diabetes and Late-onset Alzheimer's disease: an Epidemiological Perspective byJos? A. Luchsinger.- The Role of Insulin Dysregulation in Aging and Alzheimer's disease by Suzanne Craft.- Is Alzheimer's a Disorder of Ageing and why don't Mice get it? The Centrality of Insulin Signalling to Alzheimer's disease Pathology by Simon Lovestone and Richard Killick.- PKC and Insulin Pathways in Memory Storage: Targets for Synaptogenesis, Anti-apoptosis, and the Treatment of AD by Miao-Kun Sun, Thomas J. Nelson and Daniel L. Alkon.- Diet, A Oligomers and Defective Insulin and Neurotrophic Factor Signaling in Alzheimer's disease by Greg M. Cole, Qiu-Lan Ma, Fusheng Yang, Atul Deshpande, Oliver Ubeda and Sally A. Frautschy.- Serum IGF-I, Life-style, and Risk of Alzheimer s disease by Joaquin Piriz, Takeshi Nishijima, Jose Luis Trejo and Ignacio Torres Aleman.- Subject index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642262813
• ISBN13: 9783642262814
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"