Bioenergetics: Open Access

Abstract

Impaired Energy Metabolism: Involvement in Neurodegenerative Processes and CNS Ageing

Veer B Gupta and Vivek K Gupta

World is experiencing a consistent and steady increase in the ageing population with even higher proportional differences in the developed countries. Increase in ageing populations is directly correlated with the increased prevalence of age-related degenerative diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) such as Alzheimer’s disease and various other forms of dementias, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, retinal degenerative disorders, Huntington’s’ disease, multiple sclerosis, psychiatric and behavioural disorders amongst others.