the molecular pathology of dementia and movement disorders /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Dennis W. Dickson, Roy O. Weller
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
2nd ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Hoboken, NJ :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Wiley-Blackwell,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 477 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. (some col.) ;
Dimensions
29 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction to neurodegeneration: the molecular pathology of dementia and movement disorders -- Cell death and neurodegeneration -- Oxidative stress and balance in neurodegenerative diseases -- Protein aggregation in neurodegeneration -- Protein degradation in neurodegeneration: the ubiquitin pathway -- Genetics of neurodegeneration -- Transgenic animal models of proteinopathies -- Clinical aspects of Alzheimer's Disease -- Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease -- Neuropathology of Alzheimer's Disease and its variants -- Amyloid-B production -- Elimination of amyloid B from the brain, its failure in Alzheimer's Disease and implications for therapy -- Introduction to tauopathies -- Frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome -- Progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration -- Pick's disease -- Argyrophilic grain disease -- Parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam -- Postencephalitic Parkinsonism -- Introduction to x-Synucleinopathies -- Parkinson's Disease -- Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson's Disease dementia -- Lewy Bodies in conditions other than disorders of x-Synuclein -- Multiple system atrophy -- Introduction to trinucleotide repeat diseases -- Huntington's Disease -- Spinocerebellar ataxias -- Friedreich's ataxia -- Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy -- Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy --
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Introduction to prion disorders -- Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Fatal familial and sporadic insomnia -- A new prion disease: protease-sensitive prionopathy -- Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Gerstmann-Straussler--Scheinkler Disease -- Kuru -- Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology -- Neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease -- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with FUS immunoreactive inclusions -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, primary lateral sclerosis and spinal muscular atrophy -- Introduction: genetic analysis as a lumper and splitter in neurodegenerative disease -- Inherited amyloidoses and neurodegeneration: familial British dementia and familial Danish dementia -- Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation -- Familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies -- Hereditary ferritinopathies