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 2024/04/19
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).