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Alzheimer research forum live discussion: is Alzheimer's a type 3 diabetes?

Alzheimer research forum live discussion: Brain derived neurotrophic factor and Alzheimer’s disease – What is the connection?

Participants: Carl Cotman and Nicole Berchtold (University of California, Irvine), Gabrielle Strobel (Alzheimer Research Forum), Qiurong Xiao (Memory Pharma), Fulya Karaman Trakya (University Medical Faculty, Turkey), Roland Pochet (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Volkmar Lessmann (University of Mainz, Germany), Danling Wang (China), Leigh Holcomb (Texas A&M University, Neuropsychiatry...

Alzheimer research forum live discussion: Making a BioMark on Alzheimer disease.

John Trojanowski: Okay, Tom. Briefly, we will focus here on chemical analyte biomarkers in various bodily fluids such as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), urine, blood, etc., and while genetics may come up, too, we will save imaging biomarkers for another time. Concerning apolipoprotein E (ApoE): It does seem to be critical to consider this for cohort assignment as demonstrated in the recent NEJM pape...

Live discussion: Protein folding and neurodegeneration: biophysics to the rescue?

Live discussion held 30 April 2003 on the Alzheimer Research Forum, featuring David Teplow. http://www.alzforum.org/res/for/journal/teplow/teplow transcript.asp Participants: Nikolay Dokholyan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Charlie Glabe (University of California, Irvine), Dave Holtzman (Washington University, St. Louis), Alexei Koudinov (Russian Academy of Medical Sciences), Alek...

Alzheimer Research Forum live discussion: insulin resistance: a common axis linking Alzheimer's, depression, and metabolism?

1Note: The transcript has been edited for clarity and accuracy. on alternatives to factor analysis for defining insulin resistance syndrome (IRS). I will be using an alternative to standard meta-analysis that I developed for studying Apolipoprotein E (ApoE), AD, and mortality. Perhaps I can start with a question. There is a huge literature correlating ApoE genotype and anything else you can thi...