This Live Journal Discussion is the first in a series of upcoming discussions of selected articles in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, which is making the full text (.pdf) of these papers available to Alzforum for this purpose. Paper du Jour: ...
Ashley Bush led this live discussion on 15 January 2004. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Ashley Bush led this live discussion on 15 January 2004. Participants: Ashley Bush ...
Mahendra Rao, with co-moderator George Martin, led this live discussion on 30 March 2004. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Dr. Mahendra Rao led this live discussion with co ...
Leigh Ann Henricksen and Howard J. Federoff led this live discussion on 17 August 2004. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live Discussion led by Leigh Ann Henricksen and ...
Steven T. DeKosky and Bengt Winblad led this live discussion on how the addition of memantine to the clinician's toolbox will change the management of Alzheimer's disease. Following its FDA approval last October, memantine is due to arrive in ...
See also our Drug Development Database and Tutorial. Howard Fillit, Jordan Tang, Frank Longo, Eli Michaelis, and Jens Eckstein led this live discussion on 16 September 2005. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at ...
The topic is an apt one to launch the new year: what factors in daily life can reduce one's risk of Alzheimer's disease? To fire up your neural networks, you are invited to read the recent review (download pdf) by Kathryn Jedrziewski, Virginia ...
Our thanks to Neuron for providing free access to this paper for the purposes of this live discussion. Caccamo A, Oddo S, Billings LM, Green KN, Martinez-Coria H, Fisher A, LaFerla FM. M1 receptors play a central role in modulating AD-like pathology in ...
Gordon Shepherd and Kei Cheung from Yale University led this Web seminar. Our featured presenters provided an introduction to SenseLab, which is a long-standing database project to build integrated multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems. ...
Despite the availability of a wide range of animal models of Alzheimer disease, none of them are able to fully recapitulate all the facets of the disease. Axonopathy is a case in point. Although there has been renewed interest in the link between axonal ...
The amyloid-β-yielding extracellular domain of APP has gotten most of the attention over the last decade or so, but inside the cell there is a large cytoplasmic fragment that might be the key to understanding the true nature of APP. Sanjay Pimplikar ...
Jim Galvin and colleagues at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, have developed a simple tool to discern very early dementia in routine clinical settings. The field overwhelmingly agrees that dementia should be detected as early as possible, yet ...
Peter T. Nelson led this Webinar from 12:00-1:30 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Time) on Friday, 26 October 2007. Transcript: Participants: Peter Nelson (University of Kentucky), Ben Albensi (St. Boniface Res Ctr/Univ of Manitoba), Laura Turner (Eisai London Research ...
At this Webinar co-hosted by Alzforum and Schizophrenia Research Forum, Hugo Geerts of In Silico Biosciences, presented a talk based on his recent article, "Of Mice and Men: Bridging the Translational Disconnect in CNS Drug Discovery" (CNS Drugs ...
Whether it’s a Bach concerto, Fermat's last theorem, or simply remembering the way home from the grocery store, cognition comes at a price. The brain depends on an elaborate network of blood vessels to feed its voracious appetite for oxygen and ...
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