Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Treatments

320 Pages·2011·5.33 MB·English

by  Marisa R. Boyd

NEUROLOGY – LABORATORY AND CLINICAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS

A ' D D
LZHEIMER S ISEASE IAGNOSIS
T
AND REATMENTS
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NEUROLOGY – LABORATORY AND CLINICAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS

A ' D D
LZHEIMER S ISEASE IAGNOSIS
AND TREATMENTS

MARISA R. BOYD
EDITOR

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Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and treatments / editor, Marisa R. Boyd.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61122-586-0 (eBook)
1. Alzheimer's disease--Diagnosis. 2. Alzheimer's disease--Treatment. I.
Boyd, Marisa R.
[DNLM: 1. Alzheimer Disease--diagnosis. 2. Alzheimer Disease--therapy.
WT 155]
RC523.A397596 2010
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Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. † New York
CONTENTS

Preface ix
Chapter 1 Alzheimer‘s Disease – 100 Years of Research: A Historical
Perspective and Commentary 1
Walter J. Lukiw
Chapter 2 Controlled and Automatic Memory Processing
in Alzheimer‘s Disease 7
John M. Hudson
Chapter 3 Age of Onset Related Differences in Clinical and
Neuropsychological Features of Alzheimer‘s Disease 25
Erin Saito, Eliot Licht, Aaron M. McMurtray and Mario F. Mendez
Chapter 4 Early Onset Dementia with Abundant Non-Neuritic A Plaques and
without Significant Neuronal Loss: Report of Two Japanese
Autopsy Cases 35
Osamu Yokota, Kuniaki Tsuchiya and Shigetoshi Kuroda
Chapter 5 How and Where Does Aβ Exert its Toxic Effects in
Alzheimer‘s Disease? 59
Damian C. Crowther, Richard M. Page, Leila Luheshi and
David A. Lomas
Chapter 6 The Spatial Patterns of -Amyloid (A ) Deposits and
Neurofibrillary Tangles (NFT) in Late-Onset Sporadic
Alzheimer's Disease 71
Richard A. Armstrong
Chapter 7 Brain Function in Altered States of Consciousness: Comparison
between Alzheimer Dementia and Vegetative State 83
Mélanie Boly, Eric Salmon and Steven Laureys
Chapter 8 Cognitive Deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment 99
F. Ribeiro, M. Guerreiro and A. de Mendonça
vi Contents
Chapter 9 Mitochondrial Pathology and Alzheimer‘s Disease 111
Michelangelo Mancuso, Cecilia Carlesi, Selina Piazza and
Gabriele Siciliano
Chapter 10 Calmodulin Binds to and Regulates the Activity of
Beta-Secretase (BACE1) 125
Sara E. Chavez and Danton H. O’Day
Chapter 11 Transgenic Models of Alzheimer‘s Pathology: Success and Caveats 137
Benoît Delatour, Camille Le Cudennec,
Nadine El Tannir-El Tayara and Marc Dhenain
Chapter 12 Relevance of COX-2 Inhibitors in Alzheimer‘s Disease 169
Amita Quadros, Laila Abdullah, Nikunj Patel and
Claude-Henry Volmar
Chapter 13 Copper Studies in Alzheimer‘s Disease 183
R. Squitti, G. Dal Forno, S. Cesaretti,
M. Ventriglia and P. M. Rossini
Chapter 14 Theoretical Comparison of Copper Chelators as Anti-Alzheimer
and Anti-Prion Agents 203
Liang Shen, Hong-Yu Zhang and Hong-Fang Ji
Chapter 15 Toward a More Rational Approach to the Treatment of Patients
with Dementia with Psychosis and Behavioral Disturbance 209
Suzanne Holroyd
Chapter 16 Amyloid Clearing Immunotherapy for Alzheimer‘s Disease and the
Risk of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy 213
Shawn J. Kile and John M. Olichney
Chapter 17 Use of Antidepressants in Older People with Mental Illness; A
Systematic Study of Tolerability and Use in Different
Diagnostic Groups 221
Stephen Curran, Debbie Turner, Shabir Musa,
Andrew Byrne and John Wattis
Chapter 18 Cystatin C Role in Alzheimer Disease: from
Neurodegeneration to Neuroregeneration 231
Luisa Benussi, Giuliano Binetti and Roberta Ghidoni
Chapter 19 A Theoretical Evaluation on Acetylcholinesterase-Inhibitory
Potential of Quercetin 243
Hong-Fang Ji and Hong-Yu Zhang
Chapter 20 Therapy with Drug Product AZD-103 May Ease
Alzheimer's Disease 251
Antonio Orlacchio and Toshitaka Kawarai
Contents vii
Chapter 21 NSAIDs in Animal Models of Alzheimer's Disease 255
M. G. Giovannini, C. Scali, A. Bellucci, G. Pepe and
F. Casamenti
Index 281