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Cognition Related Functional, Praxis and Feeding Changes in CNS Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and their Developmental Analogies

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Molecular Mechanisms of Aging

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The phenomenology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been described in increasing detail over the past decade. These increasingly detailed descriptions of the evolution of AD have manifest diagnostic, prognostic and management importance. Additionally, striking analogies between normal human development and the degenerative course of AD are now apparent. These analogies may be more than fortuitous. Accordingly, it is reasonable at this time to speculate that the course of AD may result directly or indirectly from the disruption of CNS developmental factors and/or processes.

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Reisberg, B. et al. (1990). Cognition Related Functional, Praxis and Feeding Changes in CNS Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and their Developmental Analogies. In: Beyreuther, K., Schettler, G. (eds) Molecular Mechanisms of Aging. Veröffentlichungen aus der Geomedizinischen Forschungsstelle der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol 1990 / 1990/2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84224-5_2

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