Presentations and Discussions

Presentations and Discussions on Neurodegenerative Diseases

• Drs. Virginia Lee & John Trojanowski on the Protein Road Map to Alzheimer's. Sciencewatch Interview...
• Dr. John Trojanowski was recently interviewed as part of WHYY's Online Town Meeting, "Alzheimer's: Are We Prepared?" Click here to link to WHYY and more information.
• Healthy Brain Aging at the Institute on Aging Sylvan M. Cohen Annual Retreat with Poster Session on Aging

  Why Does Healthy Brain Aging Matter? - Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, PhD

  Vascular Risk Factors and Their Impact on Healthy Brain Aging - Marilyn Albert, PhD

  How Physical Activity Impacts Healthy Brain Aging - Carl W. Cotman, PhD

  Cognitive and Emotional Health: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? - Hugh Hendrie, MB, ChB, DSc

• Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Disorders symposium from the Penn Udall Center for Parkinson's Research

“The Dementia of Lewy Body Diseases” - Howard Hurtig, MD

"Computational Challenges of Genome-wide Association Studies with Applications to Parkinson Disease Mapping" - Junhyong Kim, PhD

"Beer and Bread To Brains and Beyond: Can Yeast Cells Teach Us about Neurodegenerative Disease?" - Aaron Gitler, PhD

"Functional Brain Imaging in Parkinson's Disease" - Andrew Newberg, MD

"HDAC6 at the intersection of autophagy, the ubiquitin-proteasome system and neurodegeneration" - J. Paul Taylor, PhD, MD

• Alzheimer's: Are We Prepared? program from WHYY, featuring Dr. John Trojanowski

 

 

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