Editorial: Neurodegeneration: From Genetics to Molecules (Part II)

Abstract

Among non-transmissible chronic diseases, neurodegenerative complications have become a big challenge in public health. Elongation of human lifespan, due in part to better health services, lifestyle changes, and improvements in medicine and nutrition, has brought up in consequence, an emergence in growing scientific knowledge on fields related to aging and longevity physiology. This new social context faces human medicine to novel concerns that includes coping with chronic diseases that affect life quality at elderly and that increasingly, appear earlier in mid-age and young people.