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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias: An Introduction -- Defining Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias -- Stages of Alzheimer's Disease -- Theories on the Causes of Alzheimer's Disease -- The Cholinergic Hypothesis -- Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis -- The Tau Hypothesis -- Other Theories of AD -- Frameworks of Alzheimer's Disease -- Testing for AD, MCI, and Pre-Dementia -- Prevalence and Deaths Attributed to AD in the United States -- The Global Impact of Dementia -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Public Policy Context: Funding and Policy Initiatives -- Policy Making for Alzheimer's Disease -- Recent Alzheimer's Policy Activity -- The Economic and Social Costs of Alzheimer's Disease -- Research Funding for Alzheimer's Disease -- Global Research Policy Initiatives -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: The Alzheimer's Marketplace -- The Fear of Alzheimer's Disease -- Commercialization and Marketing of Alzheimer's Products -- Current Alzheimer's Drugs -- Brain Games: Computer-Based Cognitive Training -- Neurofeedback Training -- Physical Interventions in the Brain -- Stem Cell Therapy -- Supplements and Homeopathic Medicines -- Regulating Natural Supplements -- Selected Approaches for Treating Alzheimer's -- Souvenaid -- Metabolic Enhancement for Neurodegeneration (MEND). -- Ketones, Coconut Oil, and Ketone Ester -- The ICT Protocol -- Antioxidants -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Caregivers, Long-Term Care, and Social Health -- The Informal LTC Workforce -- The Formal LTC Workforce -- Care Homes and Assisted Living Facilities -- Abuse and Neglect of AD Patients -- Policy Developments in Long-Term Care -- Long-Term Care Policy Initiatives -- Social Health and Alzheimer's -- Methods to Enhance Social Health -- Assistive Technologies -- Summary -- References.

Rapid advances in cognitive neuroscience and converging technologies have led to a vigorous debate over cognitive enhancement. This book outlines the ethical and social issues, but goes on to focus on the policy dimensions, which until now have received much less attention. As the economic, social and personal stakes involved with cognitive enhancement are so high, and the advances in knowledge so swift, we are likely to see increasing demands for government involvement in cognitive enhancement techniques. The book therefore places these techniques in a political context and brings the subsequent considerations and divisions to the forefront of the debate, situating their resolution within the milieu of interest group politics. The book will provide a starting point from which readers can develop a balanced policy framework for addressing such concerns.

Thirty years ago there were at most only a handful of political scientists who were interested in or publishing about policy issues in the life sciences, concentrated primarily in the health or environmental policy areas. As a result, political science was notably absent as a discipline either in the literature, at conferences, or as members of state or national commissions, advisory bodies, or institutional review boards involving the life sciences.