Dementia Screening and Detection Meeting

CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES To Screen Or Not to Screen? It’s an Urgent Question Screening Tests Are Accurate, But Patients Don’t Follow Up Should primary care providers screen the aging general population for dementia, just like they do for many other diseases? One argument against

Screening Tests Are Accurate, But Patients Don’t Follow Up

CONFERENCE COVERAGE 2011-12-15 Conference Coverage The Dementia Screening and Detection Meeting, held on 22 November in New York City, hosted a day of data exchange and debate toward a set of joint recommendations for improving dementia detection in primary care practice. Meeting parti

PAPER Bellucci A, Navarria L, Zaltieri M, Missale C, Spano P

Alpha-synuclein synaptic pathology and its implications in the development of novel therapeutic approaches to cure Parkinson's disease.

Brain Res. 2012 Jan 13;1432:95-113. PubMed.

PAPER Vlad C, Lindner K, Karreman C, Schildknecht S, Leist M, Tomczyk N, Rontree J, Langridge J, Danzer K, Ciossek T, Petre A, Gross ML, Hengerer B, Przybylski M

Autoproteolytic fragments are intermediates in the oligomerization/aggregation of the Parkinson's disease protein alpha-synuclein as revealed by ion mobility mass spectrometry.

Chembiochem. 2011 Dec 16;12(18):2740-4. PubMed.

PAPER Lasztóczi B, Tukker JJ, Somogyi P, Klausberger T

Terminal field and firing selectivity of cholecystokinin-expressing interneurons in the hippocampal CA3 area.

J Neurosci. 2011 Dec 7;31(49):18073-93. PubMed.

PAPER Naia L, João Ribeiro M, Rego AC

Mitochondrial and metabolic-based protective strategies in Huntington's disease: the case of creatine and coenzyme Q.

Rev Neurosci. 2011 Dec 13; PubMed.

PAPER Noelker C, Schwake M, Balzer-Geldsetzer M, Bacher M, Popp J, Schlegel J, Eggert K, Oertel WH, Klockgether T, Dodel RC

Differentially expressed gene profile in the 6-hydroxy-dopamine-induced cell culture model of Parkinson's disease.

Neurosci Lett. 2012 Jan 17;507(1):10-5. PubMed.

PAPER Bhatia HS, Agrawal R, Sharma S, Huo YX, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F

Omega-3 fatty acid deficiency during brain maturation reduces neuronal and behavioral plasticity in adulthood.

PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e28451. PubMed.

PAPER Zerovnik E

Oligomerization preceding amyloid fibril formation: a process in common to intrinsically disordered and globular proteins.

Network. 2011;22(1-4):154-61. PubMed.

PAPER Puschmann A, Englund E, Ross OA, Vilariño-Güell C, Lincoln SJ, Kachergus JM, Cobb SA, Törnqvist AL, Rehncrona S, Widner H, Wszolek ZK, Farrer MJ, Nilsson C

First neuropathological description of a patient with Parkinson's disease and LRRK2 p.N1437H mutation.

Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2011 Dec 6; PubMed.

PAPER Ayala R, Kett LR, Leach TL, Young AB, Dunah AW, Orlando LR

Metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1): antibody specificity and receptor expression in cultured primary neurons.

J Neurosci Methods. 2012 Mar 15;204(2):221-6. PubMed.

PAPER Hovakimyan M, Petersen J, Maass F, Reichard M, Witt M, Lukas J, Stachs O, Guthoff R, Rolfs A, Wree A

Corneal alterations during combined therapy with cyclodextrin/allopregnanolone and miglustat in a knock-out mouse model of NPC1 disease.

PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e28418. PubMed.

PAPER Huang C, Tong J, Bi F, Zhou H, Xia XG

Mutant TDP-43 in motor neurons promotes the onset and progression of ALS in rats.

J Clin Invest. 2012 Jan 3;122(1):107-18. PubMed.

PAPER Kremer A, Maurin H, Demedts D, Devijver H, Borghgraef P, Van Leuven F

Early improved and late defective cognition is reflected by dendritic spines in Tau.P301L mice.

J Neurosci. 2011 Dec 7;31(49):18036-47. PubMed.

PAPER Stöhr J, Watts JC, Legname G, Oehler A, Lemus A, Nguyen HO, Sussman J, Wille H, Dearmond SJ, Prusiner SB, Giles K

Spontaneous generation of anchorless prions in transgenic mice.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 27;108(52):21223-8. PubMed.