Hormones, Cognition and Dementia - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Section 1 - Estrogens and cognition: perspectives and opportunities in the wake of the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study

pp 1-64

Chapter 1 - Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) program: emerging findings

pp 1-10

Chapter 2 - Identifying risk factors for cognitive change in the Women's Health Initiative: a neural networks approach

pp 11-24

Chapter 3 - Estrogen therapy – relationship to longevity and prevalent dementia in the oldest-old: the Leisure World Cohort Study and the 90+ Study

pp 25-31

Chapter 4 - The critical window hypothesis: hormone exposures and cognitive outcomes after menopause

pp 32-44

Chapter 5 - Animal studies that support estrogen effects on cognitive performance and the cholinergic basis of the critical period hypothesis

pp 45-54

Chapter 6 - The healthy cell bias of estrogen action through regulating glucose metabolism and mitochondrial function: implications for prevention of Alzheimer's disease

pp 55-64

Section 2 - Varieties of estrogenic therapy

pp 65-100

Chapter 7 - Alternative estrogenic treatment regimens and the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study – Cognitive and Affective substudy (KEEPS-CA)

pp 65-79

Chapter 8 - The use of transdermal 17β-estradiol in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

pp 80-86

Chapter 9 - Alternative modes of treatment: pulsatile estradiol treatment

pp 87-92

Chapter 10 - In search of estrogen alternatives for the brain

pp 93-100

Section 3 - Potential modulators and modifiers of estrogenic effects

pp 101-142

Chapter 11 - Progesterone regulation of neuroprotective estrogen actions

pp 101-109

Chapter 12 - Clinical data of estrogen's effects in the central nervous system: estrogen and mood

pp 110-120

Chapter 13 - Different forms of soy processing may determine the positive or negative impact on cognitive function of Indonesian elderly

pp 121-132

Chapter 14 - Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in aging women: its impact on the brain and the potential influence of estradiol

pp 133-142

Section 4 - Possible genetic factors related to hormone treatment effects

pp 143-178

Chapter 15 - Possible genetic polymorphisms related to sex steroid metabolism and dementia in women

pp 143-152

Chapter 16 - Genetics related to sex steroids: implications for Alzheimer's disease

pp 153-161

Chapter 17 - Apolipoprotein E, hormone therapy, and neuroprotection

pp 162-170

Chapter 18 - Testosterone, gonadotropins, and genetic polymorphisms in men with Alzheimer's disease

pp 171-178

Section 5 - Testosterone, estradiol and men, and sex hormone binding globulin

pp 179-250

Chapter 19 - Androgens and cognitive functioning in women

pp 179-186