Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer's Disease

1. Insulin Action in the Brain and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease
C. Ronald Kahn, Ryo Suzuki

2. The Brain-insulin Connection, Metabolic Diseases and Related Pathologies
Kyriaki Gerozissis

3. Insulin-Mediated Neuroplasticity in the Central Nervous System
Lawrence P. Reagan

4. Stress Hormones and Neuroplasticity in the Diabetic Brain
Alexis M. Stranahan, Mark P. Mattson

5. Diabetes and the Brain – An Epidemiologic Perspective
Lenore J. Launer

6. Cognition in Type 2 Diabetes: Brain Imaging Correlates and Vascular and Metabolic Risk Factors
Geert Jan Biessels

7. The Relationship Between the Continuum of Elevated Adiposity, Hyperinsulinemia, and Type 2 Diabetes and Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease: An Epidemiological Perspective
José A. Luchsinger

8. The Role of Insulin Dysregulation in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Suzanne Craft

9. Is Alzheimer’s a Disorder of Ageing and Why Don’t Mice get it? The Centrality of Insulin Signalling to Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology
Simon Lovestone, Richard Killick

10. PKC and Insulin Pathways in Memory Storage: Targets for Synaptogenesis, Anti-apoptosis, and the Treatment of AD
Miao-Kun Sun, Thomas J. Nelson, Daniel L. Alkon

11. Diet, Abeta Oligomers and Defective Insulin and Neurotrophic Factor Signaling in Alzheimer’s Disease
Greg M. Cole, Qiu-Lan Ma, Fusheng Yang, Atul Deshpande, Oliver Ubeda, Sally A. Frautschy

12. Serum IGF-I, Life Style, and Risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Joaquin Piriz, Takeshi Nishijima, Jose Luis Trejo, Ignacio Torres Aleman

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Endocrinology, Geriatrics/Gerontology