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RESEARCHER INFORMATION
First Name:Mikko
Last Name:Laakso
Title:Dr.
Advanced Degrees:MD, PhD; Docent
Affiliation:Kuopio University Hospital
Department:Department of Psychiatry
City:Kuopio
Zip/Postal Code:70211 Kuopio
Country/Territory:Finland
Phone:+358 - 17 - 172975
Fax:+358 - 17 - 173019
Email Address: 
Disclosure:
(view policy)  		Member reports no financial or other potential conflicts of interest. [Last Modified: 12 February 2010]
View all comments by Mikko Laakso
Clinical Interests:
Alzheimer Disease
Research Focus:
Genetics, Brain imaging, Epidemiology, Diagnosis
Work Sector(s):
University, Medical hospital
Web Sites:
Personal: http://www.uku.fi/neuro/mikkocv.htm
Lab: http://www.uku.fi/neuro/
What is the greatest void to date in our knowledge of Alzheimer's Disease?
The reason. What causes it? What initiates and promotes it? What launches the pathological cascades, and what these in fact are, and in what chronological order and order of importance. All there is to it. Could it be we're astray with amyloid and cholinergic hypotheses? The vascular component of AD is interesting.
What is your leading hypothesis?
I don't know if I really have any. I try to stay open to ideas. I try to avoid getting stuck with any dogmas. The vascular angle seems interesting.

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