Cognitive Neuroscience Of Aging (linking Cognitive And Cerebral Aging)

By (author) Roberto Cabeza; Edited by Cabeza Roberto; Edited by Nyberg Lars; Edited by Park Denise C.
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This second edition of the popular Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging provides up-to-date coverage of the most fundamental topics in this discipline. It accessibly and comprehensively reviews the neural mechanisms of cognitive aging appropriate to both professionals and students in a variety of domains, including psychology, neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurology, and psychiatry.
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This second edition of the popular Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging provides up-to-date coverage of the most fundamental topics in this discipline. Like the first edition, this volume accessibly and comprehensively reviews the neural mechanisms of cognitive aging appropriate to both professionals and students in a variety of domains, including psychology, neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurology, and psychiatry. The chapters are organized into three sections. The first section focuses on major questions regarding methodological approaches and experimental design. It includes chapters on structural imaging (MRI, DTI), functional imaging (fMRI), and molecular imaging (dopamine PET, etc), and covers multimodal imaging, longitudinal studies, and the interpretation of imaging findings. The second section concentrates on specific cognitive abilities, including attention and inhibitory control, executive functions, memory, and emotion. The third section turns to domains with health and clinical implications, such as the emergence of cognitive deficits in middle age, the role of genetics, the effects of modulatory variables (hypertension, exercise, cognitive engagement), and the distinction between healthy aging and the effects of dementia and depression. Taken together, the chapters in this volume, written by many of the most eminent scientists as well as young stars in this discipline, provide a unified and comprehensive overview of cognitive neuroscience of aging.
Table of contents
Contributors Introduction I. Methods and Issues 1. MRI measures of aging: methodological issues Hanzhang Lu & Peiying Liu 2. Molecular imaging of aging and neurodegenerative disease Anna Rieckmann, Randy L. Buckner & Trey Hedden 3. Age differences in structural connectivity: DTI and WMHs David J. Madden & Emily L. Parks 4. Age differences in functional connectivity at rest and during cognitive tasks Cheryl L. Grady 5. Multi-modal imaging of the aging brain Anders M. Fjell & Kristine B. Walhovd 6. Structural and functional imaging of aging: longitudinal studies Lars Nyberg, Sara Pudas, & Anders Lundquist 7. Interpreting age-related differences in memory-related neural activity Michael D. Rugg II. Cognitive Processes 8. Selective attention and inhibitory control in the aging brain Theodore P. Zanto & Adam Gazzaley 9. Working memory and executive functions in the aging brain Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz & Cindy Lustig 10. Neural correlates of age-related slowing Timothy A. Salthouse 11. The aging hippocampus: linking animal and human research Shauna M. Stark & Craig E. L. Stark 12. Episodic memory encoding and retrieval in the aging brain Wei-Chun Wang & Roberto Cabeza 13. Emotion and emotional memory Elizabeth A. Kensinger & Jaclyn H. Ford III. Health and disease 14. The middle-aged brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective Denise C. Park & Sara B. Festini 15. The modifying role of hypertension in cognitive and brain aging Karen M. Rodrigue & Gerard N. Bischof 16. Genetics and cognitive neuroscience of aging Goren Papenberg, Ulman Lindenberger & Lars Backman 17. Effects of exercise on cognition, brain structure, and brain function in older adults Kirk I. Erickson & Lauren E. Oberlin 18. The link of intellectual engagement to cognitive and brain aging. Martin Lövdén, Lars Backman & Ulman Lindenberger 19. Disam