The aging of the brain represents the most important problem among those related to aging in general, and this book offers a full account of the processes occurring in both the normal aging and pathological brain. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Aging Brain and Dementia covers biological and clinical investigations of brain function and examines in detail epidemiological, clinical, biochemical, psychological, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of aging brain and dementia. The book includes findings that augment existing knowledge of when an impairment of metabolism and neurotransmission is still functional, and therefore reversible, and when it becomes morphological and irreversible. In addition, it shows how clinical advances lead to the successful evaluation of cognitive abilities and disorders of aged patients as well as those with dementia. Read Less