Between 17-21 October 2009, the 39th annual conference of the Society of Neuroscience drew some 30,500 people to the great city of Chicago, which was more balmy than windy for the occasion. Your Alzforum reporters have been busy roaming the halls, buttonholing scientists for their comments on the presentations, and putting together reports on the most significant advances. This year's stories:
Axonal Transport Not So Fast in Neurodegenerative Diseasehttp://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2274
Tau and α-Synuclein Oligomers Follow Aβ Footstepshttp://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2276
Nicotinic AChRs: α4β2 Iffy for AD, More Promise With α7?http://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2277
Move Over, Agonists; Make Way for Modulatorshttp://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2278
Nicotinic AChRs—Mechanistic Basis for New Drug Discovery?http://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2279
AD and Epilepsy—Joined at the Synapse?http://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2283
AD and Epilepsy—Lessons from the Clinic, Animalhttp://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2284
New Technologies Help Drugs Cross Blood-Brain Barrierhttp://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2286
Source Alzheimer Research Forum
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Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Brain, Epilepsy, Neuroscience
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