Four essays address the Hot Topic of Alzheimer’s Disease. Please contribute your comments at the end of each essay, or send your own essay to [email protected]. After solanezumab – where does Alzheimer’s disease research go from here? Jeremy Taylor...
[See all essays on this Hot Topic] A few weeks ago, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced that their latest Phase II trial for a drug named solanezumab, which is designed to flush beta-amyloid protein out of the brain and thereby ameliorate the symptoms of...
Enric Bufill MD Ph D Hospital Universitari de Vic, c.Francesc Pla 1, 08500, Barcelona Spain. Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is a complex disease associated with advanced age whose causes are still not fully known. AD is very...
Caleb E. Finch Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and Dornsife College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA Environmental influences on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are under appreciated. The 25-year search for AD genes has clearly shown that...
