CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2010
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
10 – 15 July 2010
Honolulu: FDA Approval in Sight for 18F Amyloid Tracer Florbetapir?
Regulatory approval could be on the horizon for an amyloid tracer being developed for brain imaging using positron emission tomography (PET)...
Honolulu: Tomm40 Reported to Track With Brain Atrophy, Cognition
Tomm40 has created a stir in AD research with the recent proposal that length of polymorphisms of this gene can help predict at what age a person may develop late-onset AD...
Honolulu: TrialMatch Launched as AD Is Becoming “Desktop” Disease
AD diagnosis is moving from the bedside to the desktop, suggests Jason Karlawish...
Honolulu: The Missing Link? Tau Mediates Aβ Toxicity at Synapse
For the first time, a paper details a molecular mechanism that links tau to Aβ toxicity at the synapse...
Honolulu: Wake-Up Call—Aβ Clearance, Not Production, Awry in AD
If β amyloid is indeed an early driver of Alzheimer disease pathogenesis, AD patients presumably churn out the peptide too quickly, clear it too slowly, or both...
Honolulu: Intranasal Insulin Trial Claims Promise in MCI, AD
Intranasal insulin seemed to improve certain measures of cognition and daily function, as well as biomarker profiles, in patients with MCI or early AD...
Honolulu: TDP-43 Gets a Place in the Sun
TDP-43 was an unknown in the neurodegeneration field until four years ago, but since then has received plenty of attention...
Honolulu: Neuroregeneration Taps Glia, Neurotrophins
New data from several independent studies suggest using neural stem cells to patch wide swaths of failing brain circuitry in AD may have a fighting chance...
Noisy Response Greets Revised Diagnostic Criteria for AD
Three groups presented results of their ongoing effort to incorporate scientific advances of the past quarter-century into a revision of the current diagnostic AD criteria...
Revised Criteria for Preclinical AD, Exactly as Presented
Three workgroups of clinicians from the U.S. and Europe offered new guidelines for the diagnosis of AD...
What Do Clinicians Say? Peers Welcome Revised Criteria
A comprehensive proposal of new diagnostic criteria marked a highlight at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease...
Honolulu: Monkey, Rat Join Menagerie of Mammalian AD Models
Beyond the lab mouse, AD researchers may have access to a growing repertoire of brainier, brawnier species for their in vivo studies...
Honolulu: Biomarker Profiles That Spell Trouble for ‘Normals’?
Scientists have drafted a new set of diagnostic research criteria redefining AD as a condition that develops decades prior to obvious symptoms...