Inez Vincent led this live discussion on 7 August 2002. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. See diagram from Inez Vincent Transcript: Live discussion held 20 May 2002 at 12 noon. Particip
Alois Alzheimer made a major breakthrough when he discovered senile plaques in the brains of dementia patients, and his work ultimately led to the discovery of amyloid-β and to the amyloid cascade hypothesis. But that cascade is only part of a much bigger
We invite you to participate in this “offline” Forum discussion with past ARF advisors Peter Davies of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and Bart De Strooper at K.U. Leuven, Belgium. The goal of this discussion is to explore the
On 19 April 2011, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer’s Association (AA) published new guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its pre-dementia and preclinical phases (see ARF related news story on McKhann et al.,
This live discussion is an update of last year's initial Live Discussion of axonal transport as an underlying factor in neurodegeneration. Jorge Busciglio and Scott Brady led this live discussion on 17 June 2003. Readers are invited to submit additio
These are comfortable times for the amyloid hypothesis, it would seem. Every week brings more good news about some anti-amyloid intervention having “cured” mice from their “Alzheimer’s.” On the human front, we are eagerly awaiting such therapeutics to sho
See questions answered by Suzanne Hendrix As researchers push into the frontier of early-stage and preventative Alzheimer's disease clinical trials, they will have to measure whether a drug works in people who do not have dementia yet. Traditional ou