Kristine Yaffe, MD, is a Roy and Marie Scola Endowed Chair in Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry, neurology, and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco and Director of the Memory Disorders clinic at San Francisco Veteran's Administration Medical Center. Dr. Yaffe's research focuses on determining predictors, biological mechanisms, and outcomes of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults, with the goal of identifying modifiable risk factors that may lead to novel strategies to prevent cognitive decline. She has received numerous grants from the NIH, DOD and private foundations and has published over 200 articles in prestigious journals.

Lenore Launer, PhD
Chief, Neuroepidemiology Section
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry
Gateway Building, 3C309
7201 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20892-9205

Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD
Aging Research Center
Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University
Gävlegatan 16
Stockholm, Sweden

Alina Solomon, MD
Department of Neurology
University of Kuopio
PO Box 1627
FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland

Angela Jefferson, PhD
Department of Neurology, Alzheimer 's Disease Center
Boston University School of Medicine
72 E Concord St, B-7800
Boston, MA 02118

Rachel Whitmer, PhD
Research Scientist II
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
2000 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612

Deborah Gustafson, PhD
Section for Psychiatry and Neurochemistry,
Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Unit at the Sahlgrenska Academy,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Departments of Neurology and Medicine,
Section for NeuroEpidemiology,
450 Clarkson Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA

Suzanne Craft, PhD
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
VA Seattle
1660 S. Columbian Way, (182B)
Box 358280
Seattle, WA 98108

Jose Luchsinger, MD
Department of Medicine
Presbyterian Hospital
Room 9E-105
622 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032

Manju Kurella-Tamura, MD, MPH
Division of Nephrology
Stanford University School of Medicine
780 Welch Road, Suite 106
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Adam Spira, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Mental Health
Hampton House, Room 794
624 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
Department of Psychiatry,
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0603
La Jolla, CA 92037-0603

Kenneth Rockwood, MD
Geriatrician, Professor, and Director of the Geriatric Medicine Research Unit
1421, Veterans' Memorial Building
5955 Veterans' Memorial Lane
Halifax, NS

Deborah Barnes, PhD
Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
Box VAMC - 151R , 4150 Clement Street
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143 - VAMC

Pascale Barberger-Gateau, MD, PhD
Department Epidemiology and Public Health
Research Center INSERM U897
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux2
Bordeaux, France

Peter A Passmore
Professor of Ageing and Geriatric Medicine
Queen's University Belfast
Centre for Public Health
Whitla Medical Building
97 Lisburn Road
Belfast ,BT9 7BL
Northern Ireland

Victor Valcour, MD
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
350 Parnassus Ave, 706
San Francisco, CA

Jacqueline Leung, MD, MPH
Professor of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
Box 0648 , 521 Parnassus Ave, Clinic Sci C450
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143 - 0648

The scientific literature on brain aging has grown, especially so in the past 10 to 15 years. Public concern and scientific interest in achieving a healthy body and brain has never been greater. This comprehensive book, Chronic Medical Disease and Cognitive Aging: Towards a Healthy Body and Brain meets the current need we have for consolidating an immense body of recent medical science into accessible chapters by authors with expertise in different chronic medical conditions and their relationships with cognitive aging, including Alzheimer's Disease and the dementias in general. Persons with interest in the current state of knowledge on these important topics will find this new book of great interest. I enjoyed reading it immensely and welcome its addition to my library of important books on aging and the brain. -- Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, Vice President For Research, Group Health, Executive Director, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA

Kristine Yaffe's new book provides a unique resource for clinicians and translational investigators interested in the impact of chronic medical illness, aging, and cognitive functioning in the general population. This invaluable volume provides highly accessible information regarding the influence of systemic illnesses such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and renal disease on otherwise healthy neurological function. In depth discussion of the impact of medical illness on the aging brain is complemented by chapters addressing recent developments on the impact of diet, sleep disorders, and physical inactivity on cognitive performance in the elderly...In aggregate, this book is a "must read" for physicians and lay people interested in maintaining brain health in our aging population. -- David Eidelberg, MD, Director, Center for Neurosciences, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY

"This is an outstanding, informative book on cognitive aging and all the pertinent factors that can influence it." -- Doody's

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