Animal models of human cognitive aging.

9781588299963

Animal models of human cognitive aging.

Ed. by Jennifer L. Bizon and Alisa G. Woods.

Humana Press Inc.

2009

208 pages

$129.00

Hardcover

BF724

Researchers in neurological and psychiatric sciences describe some of the most widely used animal models in enough detail that others can understand the benefits and drawbacks of each. They also relate the models to human systems and circumstances. Rodent and non-human primates have often been used to investigate biological processes and conditions, but only recently to investigate cognitive processes. Among the eight topics are normal and pathological aging, comparing different cognitive rate models of human aging, behavioral tasks and neural substrates in mouse models, hormone influences on brain aging and age-related cognitive decline, and time deficits in aging and neuropathology.

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