DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES

9.10 and 9.100 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

SPRING SEMESTER 1999

 

Wednesday, May 5

Alzheimer's Disease

John Growdon, MGH

 
 

Required Reading for Undergraduates and Graduate Students

Cummings, J.L, Vinters, H.V., Cole, G.M. and Khachaturian, Z. (1998).  Alzheimer's disease: Etiologies, pathophysiology, cognitive reserve, and treatment opportunities.  Neurology, 51, S2-S17.

Gómez-Isla, T., Price, J.L., McKeel,Jr., D. W., Morris, J.C., Growdon, J.H., and Hyman, B.T. (1996).  Profound loss of layer II entorhinal cortex neuron occurs in very mild Alzheimer's disease.  The Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 4491-4500.

Locascio, J.J., Growdon, J.H., Corkin, S. (1995).  Cognitive test performance in detecting, staging, and tracking Alzheimer's disease.  Arch. Neurol., 52, 1087-1099.

Mayeux, R., Saunders, A.M., Shea, S., Mirra, S., Evans, D., Roses, A.D., Hyman, B.T., Crain, B., Ming-Xin Tang and Phelps, C.H. (1998).  Utility of the apolipoprotein E genotype in the diagnosis  of Alzheimer's disease.  New England Journal Medicine, 338, 506-511.

Price, D.L. and Sisodia, S.S. (1998).  Mutant genes in familial Alzheimer's disease and transgenic models.  Ann. Rev. Neuroscience, 21, 479-505.

 
 

 



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