PAPER Bird TD, Koerker RM, Leaird BJ, Vlcek BW, Thorning DR

Lipomembranous polycystic osteodysplasia (brain, bone, and fat disease): a genetic cause of presenile dementia.

Neurology. 1983 Jan;33(1):81-6. PubMed: 6681564

PAPER Johnson B, Zhang K, Gay M, Horovitz S, Hallett M, Sebastianelli W, Slobounov S

Alteration of brain default network in subacute phase of injury in concussed individuals: resting-state fMRI study.

Neuroimage. 2012 Jan 2;59(1):511-8. PubMed: 21846504

PAPER Talavage TM, Nauman EA, Breedlove EL, Yoruk U, Dye AE, Morigaki KE, Feuer H, Leverenz LJ

Functionally-Detected Cognitive Impairment in High School Football Players Without Clinically-Diagnosed Concussion.

J Neurotrauma. 2013 Apr 11; PubMed: 20883154

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Fall Flurry of Letters Kicks Up Dust Around TREM2

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-10-18 Research News Nearly one year ago, two research groups reported that a mutation in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2, better known as TREM2, raises risk for Alzheimer’s disease by nearly as much as does the established risk factor ApoE4

Could Bexarotene Treat Parkinson’s Disease?

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-10-18 Research News A drug currently under investigation as an Alzheimer’s treatment may show promise for Parkinson’s disease as well, suggests a paper in the October 11 ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Bexarotene, an approved cancer drug, made headlines in 2012 when

Study Links Motor Neuron Disease to New Receptor Tyrosine Kinase

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-10-18 Research News Known genetic variants explain only 75 percent of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases, leaving more ALS genes to find. However, since the largest ALS families already have been scoured by gene-hunters, researchers now resort to stud

Functional MRI Detects Brain Abnormalities in Former Football Players

RESEARCH NEWS 2013-10-18 Research News Functional neuroimaging scans could be more sensitive than behavioral tests at revealing brain damage in athletes who suffer repeated head hits, according to new research published in the October 16 Scientific Reports. Researchers led by Ada

PAPER Gossink F, Dols A, Kerssens CJ, Scheltens P, Stek ML, Pijnenburg YA

[The behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia].

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2013;157(42):A6370. PubMed: 24128597

PAPER McDade EM, Boot BP, Christianson TJ, Pankratz VS, Boeve BF, Ferman TJ, Bieniek K, Hollman JH, Roberts RO, Mielke MM, Knopman DS, Petersen RC

Subtle gait changes in patients with REM sleep behavior disorder.

Mov Disord. 2013 Nov;28(13):1847-53. PubMed: 24130124

PAPER Gill ON, Spencer Y, Richard-Loendt A, Kelly C, Dabaghian R, Boyes L, Linehan J, Simmons M, Webb P, Bellerby P, Andrews N, Hilton DA, Ironside JW, Beck J, Poulter M, Mead S, Brandner S

Prevalent abnormal prion protein in human appendixes after bovine spongiform encephalopathy epizootic: large scale survey.

BMJ. 2013 Oct 15;347:f5675. PubMed: 24129059

PAPER Burke TL, Miller JL, Grant PA

Direct inhibition of Gcn5 catalytic activity by polyglutamine-expanded Ataxin-7.

J Biol Chem. 2013 Nov 22;288(47):34266-75. PubMed: 24129567

PAPER Gendron TF, Bieniek KF, Zhang YJ, Jansen-West K, Ash PE, Caulfield T, Daughrity L, Dunmore JH, Castanedes-Casey M, Chew J, Cosio DM, van Blitterswijk M, Lee WC, Rademakers R, Boylan KB, Dickson DW, Petrucelli L

Antisense transcripts of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat form nuclear RNA foci and undergo repeat-associated non-ATG translation in c9FTD/ALS.

Acta Neuropathol. 2013 Oct 16; PubMed: 24129584

PAPER Knippenberg S, Sipos J, Thau-Habermann N, Körner S, Rath KJ, Dengler R, Petri S

Altered Expression of DJ-1 and PINK1 in Sporadic ALS and in the SOD1G93A ALS Mouse Model.

J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2013 Nov;72(11):1052-61. PubMed: 24128678