CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2009
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
17 – 21 October 2009
Chicago: Axonal Transport Not So Fast in Neurodegenerative Disease
The long axons of neurons act as intracellular highways, with motor proteins shuttling their cargo up and down microtubule tracks...
Chicago: Tau and α-Synuclein Oligomers Follow Aβ Footsteps
In Alzheimer disease research, focus has recently shifted away from large plaques and toward small oligomers of amyloid as a potential cause of disease...
Chicago: Nicotinic AChRs: α4β2 Iffy for AD, More Promise With α7?
Days before the masses swarmed to the SfN annual meeting, a more intimate assembly of 287 exchanged the latest buzz on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors...
Chicago: Move Over, Agonists; Make Way for Modulators
At a satellite symposium, “Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (nAChRs) as Therapeutic Targets,” clinical discussion of cognitive treatments focused largely on nAChR agonists...
Chicago: Nicotinic AChRs—Mechanistic Basis for New Drug Discovery?
It’s refreshing to hear about studies showing clear convergence between biology, drug action, and behavior, all in the space of a few seconds, no less...
Chicago: AD and Epilepsy—Joined at the Synapse?
In the past two years, a closer look at epilepsy and Alzheimer disease has revealed some fundamental similarities...
Chicago: AD and Epilepsy—Lessons from the Clinic, Animals
The SfN annual meeting featured a rare convergence of epilepsy and Alzheimer disease researchers at a symposium focused on shared features of these two disorders...
Chicago: New Technologies Help Drugs Cross Blood-Brain Barrier
Designing compounds to fight neurodegenerative disease comes with the additional challenge of making sure they actually reach the brain...
Chicago: The Vampire Principle—Young Blood Rejuvenates Aging Brain?
Scientists at last month’s Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago confirmed the vampire principle, whereby young blood keeps an aging organism vigorous...
Chicago: NFATs, Calcineurin—Mediators of AD, PD Pathogenesis?
Several posters beefed up the concept that signaling via calcineurin and NFATs may play a central role in neurodegenerative disease pathogenesis...
Chicago: Interest in PyroGluAβ Flares Up in Academia
Pyroglutamate Aβ has been making a return to center stage in AD research after languishing in relative obscurity for a decade following its initial discovery...
Chicago: Fanning the Flames of PyroGluAβ in Academia
Exactly which form the amino end of Aβ takes in the brains of people with AD is a question that increasingly crops up in talks about immunotherapy and even other dementias...