Exploring Psychology & Neuroscience discussion

My mother was the first female graduate student in the department of Physiology at Yale in the 1930's. Her real area of research interest was psychophysiology, but her all male professors washed her out by repeatedly testing her knowledge in the field of anatomy back when rote learning of anatomical latin details was a big, big part of the program.

When she was 64, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and her doctors predicted she would live five years. Due to her tenacity and advances in medication which she followed avidly and reported on her own experimentation on herself to anyone who would listen, she was still alive at 87 when she died of a UTI.

I never studied this field until I, myself was assessed in a clinical interview by a neurologist as having "mild cognitive deficit" and given my family history put on the generic version of Aricept (donapzil (sp?)...My reading of books mentioned in the potential reading list for this group focuses on gaining insights which I might use to help exercise my brain to resist something I don't yet want to give in to.

Quite a generic question but in regards to Alzheimer's disease, the only book I've personally heard someone discuss is 'Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter’s Memoir'. However, it may be best to search through up-to-date academic journals. Easiest may to find these papers 'Google Scholar'.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?...

Thanks for pointing out the tool. "Citation density analysis" at work!

I was hoping there was a recent, well constructed "state of the art" summary of AD and Parkinson's age related cognitive changes and the therapeutic approaches available to patients and their doctors. Too much to ask for, apparently.

Not book's but still interesting reads, aspartame and sugar leads to neurodegeneration:


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed...


Acutally there are interesting research on medications that stops or invert neurodegeneration.


Things like Akt

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...


Glp1 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...


Are very promising research topics, also some recently discovered degeneration causes May help you avoid Dangerous foods with the help of a dietologist


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...


Also dont forget no matter how brain is declining , It also has growing mechanisms, so you just need to keep brain in exercise and avoid sleeping top much or top less