...This chapter presents studies which reveal that the cognitive challenge in youth helps to improve brain function and cognitive function in adulthood and old age. The association of higher education attainment in youth with improved cognitive function and reduced Alzheimer’s disease risk in old age...

...) of neuropsychiatric diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and autism, is presented. The use of candidate-gene studies to figure out the relationship between genes and cognition is explored along with the method’s findings and limitations. The importance of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene...

... is not universal, and that there is retention of plasticity in the aging brain. The chapter discusses the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on memory, attention, and visuospatial functioning and states the importance of studying cognitive aging while keeping the disease in mind. The importance of screening for signs...

...This chapter discusses the pros and cons of using estrogen and cognition-enhancing drugs in treating neuropsychiatric conditions, and presents health risks related to a decrease in estrogen levels in middle-age women, including Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and cognitive impairment. The use...

...This chapter deals with the effect of systemic inflammation on neurodegenerative disease. It demonstrates that inflammation may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression. This chapter shows that the interactions between systemic inflammation and the microglia might have a profound...

... on brain disorders that have been linked to dynamic coordination failures, including autism, epilepsy, amblyopia, schizophrenia, Williams syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. driving interactions dynamic coordination feedforward input oscillations synchrony Alzheimer’s disease...

...This chapter describes the connection between the nerve growth factor (NGF) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It reveals that NGF can be considered as an anti-amyloidogenic factor that normally keeps the amyloidogenic pathway under control. It states that the experimental study of AD11...

... be hailed as more creative by the artistic community, the brain networks underlying the drive to make these choices may not necessarily be the same as those upon which healthy artists rely. Creativity Frontotemporal dementia FTD Neurodegenerative disease Alzheimer’s disease AD Behavioral variant...