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Alzheimer's disease — biology, diagnosis and therapeutics
Author(s)	Khalid Iqbal, Bengt Winblad, Tsuyoshi Nishimura
Publisher	John Wiley, Chichester, 1996
Pages	831 pp
Source	John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD.
Keywords	Dementia ; Biological ageing ; Diagnosis ; Therapeutics ; Organisation of care ; Research ; Conference proceedings.
Annotation	This volume comprises selected papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, held in Osaka, Japan in 1996. In the previous two years, there have been major advances in understanding the aetiology and pathogenesis of the disease. These include discovery of the genes whose mutations associate with Alzheimer's in familial cases, the mechanisms of neuronal degeneration, and identification of specific steps in the neurodegenerative process that provide targets for therapeutic intervention. Advances in knowledge of epidemiology and risk factors, differential diagnosis, histopathology, molecular pathology, the generation of animal and cellular models, and psychosocial care (including family caregiving) are covered in some detail.
Accession Number	CPA-97060305 B
Classmark	EA: BH: LK7: LL: P: 3A: 6M
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