Professor of Neuropsychology (Adjunct)
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin,
1 University Station
Austin, Texas
Dr. Jack de la Torre is a leading authority in the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In 1993, he first advanced the concept of AD as a vascular disorder with neurodegenerative consequences in a series of basic and clinical papers that culminated in the CATCH (critically-attained threshold of cerebral hypoperfusion) vascular hypothesis of AD. The vascular hypothesis of AD has had a profound impact and influence on research studies involving epidemiology, neuroimaging, neuropathology and therapeutics that continue to clarify the pathophysiology and pathogenesis of Alzheimer dementia. Dr. de la Torre has edited or co-edited 10 volumes on the subject of vascular factors in AD and published over 200 peer reviewed papers on neurodegeneration, neuropathology and neurotransmission. He has held professorial appointments in the Departments of Neurosurgery at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Ottawa, and in Pathology at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. de la Torre continues his active research on Alzheimers disease as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.Chapter 1
How does Alzheimers begin and who gets it?
Chapter 2
Forming memories
Chapter 3
Masquerading as dementia
Alzheimers --then and now
Chapter 5
Unproven hypotheses on the cause of Alzheimers
Chapter 6
Other hypotheses on the cause of Alzheimers disease
Chapter 7
Alzheimer noise
Chapter 8
Social contract and Alzheimers
Chapter 9
Genetics of Alzheimers
Chapter 10
Powering the brain
Chapter 11
Pharmaceuticals and Alzheimers
Chapter 12
Alzheimer vascular risk factors
Chapter 13
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Advanced Aging
Chapter 14
A Personal Account of How a Scientific Hypothesis
Blooms Into a Life of Its Own
Chapter 15
Clinical tools to detect and predict individuals at risk of Alzheimers
Chapter 16
The turning point for Alzheimers
Chapter 17
How poor brain blood flow promotes Alzheimers disease
Chapter 18
Interventions that may increase cerebral blood flow
Chapter 19
Great Expectations
Chapter 20
A road to new thinking
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