Paper of the Month
Paper of the Month: Proteinopathies and prions: A common mechanism for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
For October 2015, we have selected: M. Goedert. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein. Science 2015;349(6248):1255555. Doi: 10.1126/science.12555550.
In this review of Michel Goedert, the pathophysiology of the two most frequent neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), is unified in a common process that shares the prion-like spreading of abnormal protein assemblages inside the brain.