Neurodegenerative Disorders as Systemic Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wada, Keiji (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.

This book sheds new light on neurodegenerative disorders as systemic diseases. Classically, neuronal cell death was a hallmark of such disorders. However, it has become evident that neural dysfunction is more important in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders. More recently, the prionoi...