Alliance for Alzheimer’s disease and other Dementias
October 4th – 5th 2019, Pavia, Italy
This first congress on Alliance for Alzheimer’s diesease and other Dementias is organised by the University of Pavia, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Mondino… Continue Reading
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Report from Dr Célia Carina Machado, from Oliveira Santa Maria, Portugal visiting the Department of Epilepsy, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Ley Sander
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President’s Page: Treatment of neurodegenerative diseases: are we close to a breakthrough?
October 1, 2016It is a dream of neurologists to cure degenerative diseases. The big brothers, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease have always been a huge burden of the population but are now, in the millennium of increasing population age becoming a scourge of humanity. While everybody is acknowledging this, both PD (1) and AD (2) communities of clinician researchers and basic researchers are preparing to attack the problem fundamentally frequently unnoticed by the general neurology community. -
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Paper of the month and Scientific Debate: A new hope for Alzheimer’s disease treatment with the PRIME study?
October 1, 2016For October 2016 we have selected: Sevigny J, Chiao P, Bussiere T, et al. The antibody aducanumab reduces Aβ plaques in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 2016;537:50-56. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder. It is also extremely disabling with severe impact of the quality of life of patients and caregivers. The main pathological process is related to the toxic deposition of amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. No effective treatment is currently available to slow down the disease progression. -
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A ROUND TABLE discussion of the Paper of the Month with the EAN SCIENTIFIC PANEL on DEMENTIA AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS
October 1, 2016EANpages has the honor and the pleasure to introduce this virtual Round Table, composed by some members of the EAN Scientific Panel on Dementia and Cognitive Disorders, who are discussing the Paper of the Month, in addition to the comments of the Presidential Page. We thank the Panel for their enthusiastic participation and we invite all EAN members to participate with sending their comments. -
Report from Shabnam Khalilova from Azerbaijan visiting the Department of Neurology at the Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway under the supervision of Professor Ole Björn Tysnes It was my big dream to visit a European hospital and to observe the… Continue Reading