CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2012
New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
13 – 17 October 2012
The Human Connectome Project: Deciphering the Brain’s Wiring
A National Institutes of Health initiative seeks to map the connections of the healthy human brain and provide a huge reference database freely available to researchers worldwide...
The Many Faces of LRRK2
Polymorphisms in the gene for leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) confer risk for both familial and sporadic forms of Parkinson’s disease...
New Strategies for Early Diagnosis of AD
“Earlier” seems to be the new mantra in Alzheimer’s research...
Animal Model Redux: New Lessons From Old Transgenics?
At the SfN annual meeting, several presentations raised questions about current animal models and their relationships to disease mechanisms...
SfN: Glial-Neuronal Signaling and AD Pathology
The interplay between glia and Aβ is one aspect of AD pathology that continues to mystify...
SfN: Epigenetic Changes in Alzheimer’s and Cognitive Decline
At SfN, researchers pored over epigenetic marks predisposing to AD and cognitive decline, and discussed how those might be targeted therapeutically...
SfN: Tau Toxicity in the Limelight
A growing number of studies stress the harmful effects of tau in AD, but exactly how the protein exerts toxicity, and how it interacts with Aβ, remain open to question...