PAPER Fleisher AS, Chen K, Liu X, Roontiva A, Thiyyagura P, Ayutyanont N, Joshi AD, Clark CM, Mintun MA, Pontecorvo MJ, Doraiswamy PM, Johnson KA, Skovronsky DM, Reiman EM

Using positron emission tomography and florbetapir F18 to image cortical amyloid in patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia due to Alzheimer disease.

Arch Neurol. 2011 Nov;68(11):1404-11. PubMed: 21747008

PAPER Villemagne VL, Okamura N, Pejoska S, Drago J, Mulligan RS, Chételat G, Ackermann U, O'Keefe G, Jones G, Gong S, Tochon-Danguy H, Kung HF, Masters CL, Skovronsky DM, Rowe CC

In vivo assessment of vesicular monoamine transporter type 2 in dementia with lewy bodies and Alzheimer disease.

Arch Neurol. 2011 Jul;68(7):905-12. PubMed: 21747030

PAPER Davis NJ, Hendrix CC, Superville JG

Supportive approaches for Alzheimer disease.

Nurse Pract. 2011 Aug;36(8):22-9. PubMed: 21747305

PAPER Shimada H, Ataka S, Takeuchi J, Mori H, Wada Y, Watanabe Y, Miki T

Pittsburgh compound B-negative dementia: a possibility of misdiagnosis of patients with non-alzheimer disease-type dementia as having AD.

J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2011 Sep;24(3):123-6. PubMed: 21750305

PAPER Sharp ES, Gatz M

Relationship between education and dementia: an updated systematic review.

Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2011 Oct;25(4):289-304. PubMed: 21750453

Vania Broccoli

San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milano, Italy

PAPER Brayne C, Gill C, Huppert FA, Barkley C, Gehlhaar E, Girling DM, O'Connor DW, Paykel ES

Vascular risks and incident dementia: results from a cohort study of the very old.

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 1998 May-Jun;9(3):175-80. PubMed: 9622006

Stephen Salloway on Book Review: Neuroimaging in Dementia

COMMENT Neuroimaging in Dementia is a gem of a book, highly recommended for current and future clinicians and clinical researchers interested in the care of patients with cognitive decline. Beautifully illustrated and well-balanced, its intelligent design contain

Fuyuki Kametani on Potent amyloidogenicity and pathogenicity of Aβ43.

COMMENT In this interesting and important paper, Saito and colleagues have engineered knock-in mice that cause overproduction of Aβ43. They showed that Aβ43, an overlooked species, was potently amyloidogenic, neurotoxic, and abundant in vivo. Aβ43 may be a new bi

Derick Mitchell

EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND)
Dublin, Ireland

Cagri Yalgin

RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Japan

Pablo Aran Terol

University of Cambridge
Regent Street

Book Review: Neuroimaging in Dementia

BOOK REVIEWS 2011-07-13 Book Reviews Despite growing awareness, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are still frequently misdiagnosed. Often, pathologists notice postmortem that the clinical diagnosis the patient received during life was wrong. And while brain imaging is inc

PAPER Gath J, Habenstein B, Bousset L, Melki R, Meier BH, Böckmann A

Solid-state NMR sequential assignments of α-synuclein.

Biomol NMR Assign. 2011 Jul 9; PubMed: 21744165

PAPER Sokolowski K, Falluel-Morel A, Zhou X, Dicicco-Bloom E

Methylmercury (MeHg) elicits mitochondrial-dependent apoptosis in developing hippocampus and acts at low exposures.

Neurotoxicology. 2011 Oct;32(5):535-44. PubMed: 21741406