 Book Description
Hardbound. The main purpose of this book is to understand the principles governing the longevity and loss of maintenance capacity of the nervous system. Neural aging is presented by specialists and even pioneers in their own fields, including evolutionary biology, genetics, biochemistry, biophysics, embryology, neurology, and pathology. It is thoroughly edited and illustrated, and organized in such a way as to fit, on the one hand the needs of a critical review and, on the other hand the aims of an introductory course on the biology of neural aging.The volume is divided into four sections. Section I, General Theory of Aging, introduces the problem of aging in general, and aging of the nervous system in particular, in a biophysical and biochemical perspective. Section II, Ontogeny, Evolution and Neural Aging, addresses evolutionary and ontogenetical topics. Section III, Tissue and Cellular Changes, presents the adult brain, and terminating with a descri
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