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1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Understanding the Aging Mind -- Identifying Research Opportunities -- Neural Health -- Recent Scientific Developments -- Research Initiative on Neural Health -- Implementation Issues -- Cognition in Context -- Recent Scientific Developments -- Research Initiative on Cognition in Context -- Structure of the Aging Mind -- Recent Scientific Advances -- Research Initiative on the Structure of the Aging Mind -- Implementation -- Organization of Research Support -- Promoting Interdisciplinary Research -- Research Infrastructure -- Collaboration Across Institutes -- Age-Related Shifts in Neural Circuit Characteristics and Their Impact on Age-Related Cognitive Impairments / John H. Morrison -- Homeostatic Processes in Brain Aging: The Role of Apoptosis, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Regulating Healthy Neural Circuitry in the Aging Brain / Carl W. Cotman -- Bearable Lightness of Aging: Judgment and Decision Processes in Older Adults / Ellen Peters, Melissa L. Finucane, Donald G. MacGregor, Paul Slovic -- Cognitive Aging and Adaptive Technologies / Donald L. Fisher -- Health Effects on Cognitive Aging / Shari R. Waldstein -- Cultural Variations in Cognition: Implications for Aging Research / Shinobu Kitayama -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Nonhuman Primates: A Prospectus for Research on Aging / Thomas D. Albright. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cognition -- Age factors.
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Cognition -- Age factors. |
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Ability, Influence of age on.
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Ability, Influence of age on. |
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Cognition -- physiology. |
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Aged. |
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Age Factors. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stern, Paul C., 1944-
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Carstensen, Laura L.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Future Directions for Cognitive Research on Aging.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aging mind. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2000 0309069408 (DLC) 00008630 (OCoLC)43615244 |
| ISBN |
0585274428 (electronic book) |
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9780585274423 (electronic book) |
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9780309069403 (paperback) |
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0309069408 (paperback) |
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