PAPER Gonsalves D, Jovanovic K, Da Costa Dias B, Weiss SF

Global Alzheimer Research Summit: Basic and clinical research: Present and future Alzheimer research.

Prion. 2012 Jan 1;6(1) PubMed: 22307156

PAPER Poulsen HE, Specht E, Broedbaek K, Henriksen T, Ellervik C, Mandrup-Poulsen T, Tonnesen M, Nielsen PE, Andersen HU, Weimann A

RNA modifications by oxidation: a novel disease mechanism?

Free Radic Biol Med. 2012 Apr 15;52(8):1353-61. PubMed: 22306201

PAPER Flirski M, Sieruta M, Golańska E, Kłoszewska I, Liberski PP, Sobów T

PRND 3'UTR polymorphism may be associated with behavioral disturbances 
in Alzheimer disease.

Prion. 2012 Jan 1;6(1) PubMed: 22307161

PAPER Poli G, Corda E, Lucchini B, Puricelli M, Martino PA, Dall'Ara P, Villetti G, Bareggi SR, Corona C, Costassa EV, Gazzuola P, Iulini B, Mazza M, Acutis P, Mantegazza P, Casalone C, Imbimbo BP

Therapeutic effect of CHF5074, a new γ-secretase modulator, in a mouse model of scrapie.

Prion. 2012 Jan 1;6(1) PubMed: 22307163

PAPER Karakaya T, Fußer F, Prvulovic D, Hampel H

Treatment Options for Tauopathies.

Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2012 Apr;14(2):126-136. PubMed: 22307450

PAPER Takeda M

[Advances in biological psychiatry research on dementia: AD-FTLD spectrum].

Brain Nerve. 2012 Feb;64(2):149-61. PubMed: 22308260

Janice Ciesielski

United States

Johan Lundkvist on The Alzheimer's β-secretase enzyme BACE1 is required for accurate axon guidance of olfactory sensory neurons and normal glomerulus formation in the olfactory bulb.

COMMENT This study by Rajapaksha et al. provides novel, very interesting, and important insights to the role of BACE in Neurobiology. Rajapaksha and coauthors applied an elegant genetic approach to explore the role of BACE in the olfactory system. Analysis of BAC

Benedetta Maimone

Zürich, Switzerland

Emily Corner

Pfizer
San Diego, United States

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India

Wayne Wallis

Dyad Life Sciences LLC
Seattle, United States

New Shot in Arm for Alzheimer's Research Announced Today

RESEARCH NEWS 2012-02-07 Research News The Obama Administration is investing an additional $130 million in Alzheimer's research over the next two years, health officials announced today at a press conference in Washington, D.C. A portion of that money—$50 million—will be ava

Michael Castello

Loma Linda University
United States

Gael Chetelat on Love a Good Fight? Check Out Brouhaha Over Amyloid Imaging

COMMENT This is an interesting and necessary debate. Interesting because things have been going so quickly: It took more than 20 years for hippocampal atrophy to be included as part of the Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic workup, while Aβ PET started being consider