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Pathfinder: The Aging
Brain
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications|Videos|Websites
SCOPE: During the normal process of aging some of the cognitive functions may decrease. Some memory loss occurs since the speed at which information is processed decreases or there is a decreased production of neurotransmitters, which allow brain cells to communicate with each other. Long term memory and episodic memory or the ability to remember the time and place something occurred deteriorates. ( Turkington, The Encyclopedia of Memory and Memory Disorders)
The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of resources, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books that deal with the aging brain are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings.
Brain
Aging
Alzheimer's disease
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
REF BF 31.E52 2000 Encyclopedia of Psychology
REF BF 371.N55 2001 The Encyclopedia of Memory and Memory Disorders
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Advisory Panel on Alzheimers Disease. Third
Report of the Advisory Panel on Alzheimers Disease. 1991.
Martin, Ronald L. Geriatric
Psychiatry: What's New About the Old. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 1997.
Pollen, Daniel A. Hannah's
Heirs: The Quest for the Genetic Origins of Alzheimers
Disease. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Strange, P.G. Brain
Biochemistry and Brain Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Whalley, Lawrence J. The
Aging Brain. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of the aging brain are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
VIDEOS
Discovering Psychology BF131 .D55x 1989
pt. 9- Remembering and
Forgetting
pt. 18- Maturing and
Aging
The
Mind QP356 .M56 1988
pt. 3 Aging
pt. 4 Addiction
WEBSITES
Alzheimers
Association
http://www.alz.org
Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia
University of California, Irvine
http://www.alz.uci.edu/
Lesson Plans on Aging
Issues
http://www.ithaca.edu/aging/schools/
Collaboration between Ithaca College and the
Gerontology Institute.
Updated
11/10/2008
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