by | Oct 22, 2019 | Abernathy, Daniel, Yoo, Andrew
— Background: Studying late-onset neurodegenerative disorders using patient-specific neurons is one of the primary goals of precision medicine. The ability to generate human neurons that mimic the neurons of elderly individuals will provide an instrumental platform to model and study adult-onset neuro…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Colonna, Marco, Ulland, Tyler
— Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States, and yet causation of the disease is poorly understood and targets for therapeutic intervention are still being identified. Recently, mutations in the immune receptor TREM2 have been found to be strongl…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Barrow, Melissa, Diamond, Michael, Fremont, Daved, Pal, Pankaj
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Jin, Hongjun, Liu, Hui, Luo, Zonghua, Tu, Zhude "Will"
— Background: Dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases manifests as a progressive decline in memory and other cognitive abilities. Deposits of beta-amyloid plaques and tangles of the tau protein are thought to cause the destruction o…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Guruswami, Sundaram, Sharma, Vijay, Sivapackiam, Jothilingam
— Background
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) is the second most common form of non-Alzheimer’s dementia in the population under 65 years old. FTD represents approximately 20% of all dementias and onset normally appears in the mid to late 50s. Clinically FTD is characterized by a progressive neur…