Brain Function in Old Age

Foreword and Welcome.- Opening Remarks.- Characterization of Behavioral Changes and Disorders in Old Age.- Speed of Behavior as an Indicator of Age Changes and the Integrity of the Nervous System.- Classification of Psychopathologie Syndromes in Old Age.- Symptom Profiles in Hospital and Community Resident Elderly Persons with Dementia.- Discussion.- Quantitative Evaluation of Old Age Related Changes and Disorders. Vigilance.- Some Experiments and a Model for Changes in Attentional Selectivity with Old Age.- Vigilance and Drive: Clinical and Psychophysiological Changes in Old Age.- Electroencephalographic Changes in Normal Aging and Dementia.- Changes in Visual Event-Related Potentials in Older Persons.- Discussion.- Performance, Learning and Memory.- Psychometric Assessment of Dysfunction in Learning and Memory.- Temperamental Predictors of Longitudinal Change in Performance on the Benton Revised Visual Retention Test Among Seventy Year Old Men: An Exploratory Study.- Discussion.- Cognitive Functions.- The Critical Importance of Appropriate Methodology in the Study of Aging: The Sample Case of Psychometric Intelligence.- Evolutive Profiles in Senile Dementia. A Psychological and Neuropsychological Longitudinal Study.- Discussion.- Affect.- Critical Considerations on Methods of Assessing Emotional and Motivational Characteristics of Old Persons.- A Short Psychiatric Evaluation Schedule: A New 15-Item Monotonic Scale Indicative of Functional Psychiatric Disorder.- Discussion.- Assessment of Regional Cerebral Circulation.- Disorders of Brain Functions Due to Stroke. Correlates in Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and in Computerized Tomography.- Static-Dynamic Aspects of Cerebral Blood Flow in Relation to Brain Function.- Activity Distribution in the Cerebral Cortex in OrganicDementia as Revealed by Measurements of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow.- Cerebral Circulatory Changes in Normal Aging and Dementia.- Effects of Exogenous Changes in Heart Rate Upon Perceptual and Psychomotor Performance in Patients with Artificial Pacemakers.- Discussion.- The Significance of Experimental Studies in Man.- Significance of Studies with Young Healthy Subjects for Research on Gerontology: Some Methodological Considerations.- Event-Related Brain Potentials - Manifestations of Cognitive Activity.- Discussion.- The Significance of Experimental Studies in Animals.- Speculations on the Nature of Behavioral Deficits with Aging.- Operant Behavior: A Model in Geriatric Neuropsychopharmacology.- Effects of Normal Aging on Cerebral Circulation and Energy Metabolism.- Mechanisms of Cellular Damage in the Brain.- Cerebral Dysfunction Related to Local and Global Ischemia of the Brain.- Neurophysiology of Aged Animals. Biophysical and Biochemical Nervous System Aspects of Aging.- Discussion.- A Critical Review of Therapy of Changes and Disorders in Old Age.- General Aspects of Psychiatric Therapy in Age, Especially Psychopharmacotherapy.- Geriatric Psychopharmacology: Drug Modification of Memory and Emotionality in Relation to Aging in Human and Nonhuman Primate Brain.- Psychopharmacotherapy in Psychogeriatric Disorders.- Discussion.- General Discussion.- Synopsis and Concluding Remarks.- Author Index.