Sports Concussions, Dementia, and APOE Genotyping: What Can Scientists Tell the Public? What’s Up for Research?

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09 Jun 2008

This live discussion was held on 26 June 2008 with Sam Gandy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; Steven T. DeKosky, University of Pittsburgh; Christopher Nowinski, President, Sports Legacy Institute, Author, Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis

Memantine: Implications for Treating Alzheimer's

29 Sep 2004

Steven T. DeKosky and Bengt Winblad led this live discussion on how the addition of memantine to the clinician's toolbox will change the management of Alzheimer's disease.   Following its FDA approval last October, memantine is due to arrive in

Now You See Them, Now You Don't: The Amyloid Channel Hypothesis

16 Jun 2005

Ever since amyloid-β (Aβ) was identified as the major component in amyloid plaques, scientists have been trying to decipher just exactly what the little peptide does. Most researchers would agree that Aβ is toxic to cells, but some are still skeptical. Ev

Intraneuronal Aβ: Was It APP All Along?

20 Jun 2011

On 16 June 2011, ARF held a Webinar with Eddie Lee, Todd Golde, Gunnar Gouras, Frank LaFerla, Virginia Lee, Lars Nilsson, and Robert Vassar to discuss this study’s implications for intraneuronal Aβ and its role in AD pathogenesis. The Guest Moderator was