Journey Through Alzheimer's : A Psychologist Confronts His Wife's Deadly Disease / Rick Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Rick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Biography.

Alzheimer's disease.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Ethics International Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

This book is the first personal account of Alzheimer's told from the perspective of a cognitive psychologist, Dr Rick Gardner, Emeritus Professor of Psychology in the University of Colorado, Denver, who discusses how Alzheimer's affected his wife. The author's research background provides insights into what was taking place in his wife's brain throughout the progression of the disease. In this unique book, he shares those insights with the reader in a way that is both scientifically informative, sensitive, and moving. Journey Through Alzheimer's addresses what is currently known about Alzheimer's and discusses what is known about causes of the disease, describing physiological changes that occur in the brain during dementia. It also discusses preventative measures that can be taken to avoid the disease, and techniques that one can use to help diagnose the presence of dementia in themselves or in others. The book will be helpful as a textbook for researchers and students in Alzheimer's and in Clinical Psychology, and as a guide for individuals who are dealing with the disease in a spouse or family member; and for physicians, counsellors, and people themselves in the early stages of dementia, giving them insights into what may lie ahead.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Life as We Knew It ( Mid-2017

Chapter 2 The Start of Something Beautiful

Chapter 3 Trials and Travails in Obtaining a Graduate Education

Chapter 4 Studying Memory Then and Now

Chapter 5 Into the World of Academia and Life Beyond

Chapter 6 Betty Ann Pursues a Law Degree at Age 50

Chapter 7 Cognition and Aging ( Thinking and how Age Affects it

Defining Cognition

Typical Cognitive Aging

Slower Processing Speed

Attention

Chapter 8 Earliest indications

Chapter 9 Memory ( How it Works and Doesn’t Work

Categories of Memory

Working Memory

Long-Term Memory

Distortions in Memory

Effects of Aging

Chapter 10 Typical Changes in Memory with Aging

Chronology of Cognitive Aging Effects by Decade

Twenties

Thirties

Forties

Fifties

Sixties

Seventies and beyond

Signs That Cognitive Decline May Be Serious

Detecting Atypical Cognitive Changes Generated by AI.

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Other Format:

Print version: Gardner, Rick Journey Through Alzheimer's

ISBN:

9781804419243