A general neurologist's perspective on the urgent need to apply resilience thinking to the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions - Tập 3 - Trang 498-506 - 2017
Grazyna Pomorska1, Judith K. Ockene2
1Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Group, Worcester, MA, USA
2Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

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AbstractThe goal of this article was to look at the problem of Alzheimer's disease (AD) through the lens of a socioecological resilience‐thinking framework to help expand our view of the prevention and treatment of AD. This serious and complex public health problem requires a holistic systems approach. We present the view that resilience thinking, a theoretical framework that offers multidisciplinary approaches in ecology and natural resource management to solve environmental problems, can be applied to the prevention and treatment of AD. Resilience thinking explains a natural process that occurs in all complex systems in response to stressful challenges. The brain is a complex system, much like an ecosystem, and AD is a disturbance (allostatic overload) within the ecosystem of the brain. Resilience thinking gives us guidance, direction, and ideas about how to comprehensively prevent and treat AD and tackle the AD epidemic.

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Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions

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