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Have the social safety nets, environmental protections, and
policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after
World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia today-and
how do we improve brain health in the future? Winner of the
American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest,
Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book
Awards For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure
for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying
biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that
dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and
Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And
what does it mean for brain health in the future? In American
Dementia, Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, and Peter J. Whitehouse, MD,
PhD, argue that the current decline of dementia may be strongly
linked to mid-twentieth century policies that reduced inequality,
provided widespread access to education and healthcare, and brought
about cleaner air, soil, and water. They also * explain why
Alzheimer's disease, an obscure clinical label until the 1970s, is
the hallmark illness of our current hyper-capitalist era; * reveal
how the soaring inequalities of the twenty-first century-which are
sowing poverty, barriers to healthcare and education, loneliness,
lack of sleep, stressful life events, environmental exposures, and
climate change-are reversing the gains of the twentieth century and
damaging our brains; * tackle the ageist tendencies in our culture,
which disadvantage both vulnerable youth and elders; * make an
evidence-based argument that policies like single-payer healthcare,
a living wage, and universal access to free higher education and
technical training programs will build collective resilience to
dementia; * promote strategies that show how local communities can
rise above the disconnection and loneliness that define our present
moment and come together to care for our struggling neighbors.
Ultimately, American Dementia asserts that actively remembering
lessons from the twentieth century which help us become a
healthier, wiser, and more compassionate society represents our
most powerful intervention for preventing Alzheimer's and
protecting human dignity. Exposing the inconvenient truths that
confound market-based approaches to memory enhancement as well as
broader social organization, the book imagines how we can act as
citizens to protect our brains, build the cognitive resilience of
younger generations, and rise to the moral challenge of caring for
the cognitively frail.
This excellent book is a concise yet thorough examination of the
important and emerging field of the study of biological risk
factors in drug abuse. Historically, drug abuse research has
concentrated on the contributions of environmental and behavioral
factors as the major influences on addiction. The revelatory
studies in this volume examine the genetic contributions to drug
taking behavior through the use of animal models, cellular
experiments and human clinical studies. Behavioral and Biochemical
Issues in Substance Abuse provides for the first time in one
volume, up-to-date, easily digested reviews of topics concerning
biological and genetic factors in drug abuse. Medical researchers
in all areas of alcoholism and drug abuse, researchers in
pharmacology, psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience, and
clinicians interested in biological approaches to alcoholism and
drug abuse problems will benefit greatly from this valuable
resource. Authoritative contributors clearly demonstrate the
capability of genetic factors to modulate the reinforcing or
rewarding effects of drugs, thereby altering their addictive
potential. In addition to gaining comprehension of the biological
factors affecting addiction, a greater understanding of genetics
related to drug abuse will enable future research to control
biological factors, leading to more accurate studies of behavioral
and environmental influences on drug and alcohol abuse.
This excellent book is a concise yet thorough examination of the
important and emerging field of the study of biological risk
factors in drug abuse. Historically, drug abuse research has
concentrated on the contributions of environmental and behavioral
factors as the major influences on addiction. The revelatory
studies in this volume examine the genetic contributions to drug
taking behavior through the use of animal models, cellular
experiments and human clinical studies. Behavioral and Biochemical
Issues in Substance Abuse provides for the first time in one
volume, up-to-date, easily digested reviews of topics concerning
biological and genetic factors in drug abuse. Medical researchers
in all areas of alcoholism and drug abuse, researchers in
pharmacology, psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience, and
clinicians interested in biological approaches to alcoholism and
drug abuse problems will benefit greatly from this valuable
resource. Authoritative contributors clearly demonstrate the
capability of genetic factors to modulate the reinforcing or
rewarding effects of drugs, thereby altering their addictive
potential. In addition to gaining comprehension of the biological
factors affecting addiction, a greater understanding of genetics
related to drug abuse will enable future research to control
biological factors, leading to more accurate studies of behavioral
and environmental influences on drug and alcohol abuse.
This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural,
and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain
(1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000.
Contributors analyze, from different theoretical approaches and
disciplinary perspectives, the appeal that the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries hold for twenty-first-century Spanish
audiences, as well as for international viewers who consume these
programs through new media platforms. Themes and issues explored
include: the production of televisual heritage, representations of
period technologies, evolving constructions of gender,
hybridization of television genres, and television as historian.
Expanding the scope of inquiry in Spanish media studies, this
collection seeks to bring Spain into wider discussions of media and
historical representation and visual and material culture in
Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural,
and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain
(1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000.
Contributors analyze, from different theoretical approaches and
disciplinary perspectives, the appeal that the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries hold for twenty-first-century Spanish
audiences, as well as for international viewers who consume these
programs through new media platforms. Themes and issues explored
include: the production of televisual heritage, representations of
period technologies, evolving constructions of gender,
hybridization of television genres, and television as historian.
Expanding the scope of inquiry in Spanish media studies, this
collection seeks to bring Spain into wider discussions of media and
historical representation and visual and material culture in
Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
Over the past decade, advances in molecular biology have provided
the impetus for a resurgence of interest in plant metabolism. At a
general level, the potential for modifying the quantity or quality
of harvestable crop products through genetic manipulation has
provided an agronomic rationale for seeking a greater understanding
of primary plant metabolism and its regulation. Moreover, the now
facile techniques for transformation of many plant species and the
consequential capacity to manipulate the amounts of specific
individual enzymes within specific cell types provides an exciting
direct approach for studying metabolic problems. Such transgenic
plants are also becoming invaluable tools in studies at the
interface between metabolism and other sub-disciplines such as
physiology and ecology. The interest generated in plant metabolism
by these developments has also encouraged the re-introduction of
more conventional biochemical techniques for metabolic analysis.
Finally, in common with other areas of cell biology, the wealth of
information that can be obtained at the nucleic acid level has
provided the stimulus for identification and characterisation of
metabolic processes in far greater detail than previously
envisaged. The result of these advances it that researchers now
have the confidence to address problems in plant metabolism at
levels not previously attempted. This book presents the proceedings
of an international conference held on 9-11 January 1997 at St
Hugh's College, Oxford under the auspices of the Phytochemical
Society of Europe.
Oxford successful tourism is a trusted Tourism course that is used
by teachers all over South Africa. The rich, relevant, and age
appropriate content fully covers the National Curriculum and
Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) and is enriched by the most
recent tourism statistics, ensuring that learners stay interested
throughout the year. Features: topics are structured according to
CAPS which makes the course easy to use in the classroom; the
scaffolded content and concepts are comprehensively illustrated
with logos and industry examples to provide with a solid foundation
for exam success; a full-colour mapwork section covers all that
learners need to know, and more, in Grade 10; appropriate language
levels make content accessible, build learner confidence and
support independent learning and revision; activities and questions
for revision and extension are based on exam type questions,
ensuring learners are thoroughly prepared for exams; exam support
is built into every activity, revision, practice test and practice
exam.
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