RT Book, Section A1 Ropper, Allan H. A1 Samuels, Martin A. A1 Klein, Joshua P. A1 Prasad, Sashank SR Print(0) ID 1162593700 T1 The Neurology of Aging T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 11e YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071842617 LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162593700 RD 2024/10/14 AB As indicated in the preceding chapter, standards of growth, development, and maturation provide a frame of reference against which every pathologic process in early life must be viewed. It has been less appreciated, however, that at the other end of the life cycle, neurologic deficits must be judged in a similar way, against a background of normal aging changes. The earliest of these changes begins long before the acknowledged period of senescence and continues throughout the remainder of life. Most authors use the terms aging and senescence interchangeably, but some draw a fine semantic distinction between the purely passive and chronologic process of aging and the composite of bodily changes that characterize this process (senescence).