Abstracts of the 45th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Stress and the Brain: From Fertility to Senility John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, 8th 10th September 2015 Disciplines Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details Larkin, T. & Thomas, S. (2015). The relative predictive validity of oxytocin and cortisol as...

Fig. 1. Face.-Bird-like appearance, with baldness and premature senility. well-nourished compared to marked atrophy of the limbs. Atrophy of the genitals.

The relationship between mortality and impaired cognitive function has not been thoroughly investigated in a very elderly community-dwelling population, and little is known about the association of disease-specific mortality with Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) subscale scores. Here we evaluated these data in Japanese community-dwelling elderly. In 2003, 85 year-olds (n=207) were enrolled;...

This report is concerned with advances in the study of common senile brain degeneration and of its relationship with degenerative diseases of the brain in senility and pre-senility. In 1968, the principal topic of discussion at the 52nd Congress of the German Society of Pathology in Wiirzburg was the study of the senile brain, and presentations included reports by Colmant.’ Gerhard,* Jellinger,...

For many Japanese, fear about senility is not primarily expressed in relation to pathological conditions like Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Instead, as people grow older, their concern focuses on a widely recognized category of decline in old age which, although symptomatically and conceptually overlapping with AD and other forms of senile dementia, is distinguished from unambiguously pathological ...