Alzheimer's Disease: Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives

by Chaim Lachman, Israel Hanin, Abraham Fisher, et al.

Alzheimer's disease is a primary neurodegenerative disease whose incidence and prevalence is rapidly approaching epidemic proportions. A major reason for this is that man is living longer than he has ever lived before and the likelihood of contracting the disease is significantly greater within the elderly portion of the population. The problem becomes even more acute in the light of recent estimates which predict that the number of people living...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461564166
• ISBN13: 9781461564164
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"