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Springer Alzheimer 100 Years And Beyond 2006 Edition by Mathias Jucker Konrad Beyreuther Christian Haass Roger M. Nitsch
Few medical or scientific addresses have so unmistakeably made history as the presentation delivered by Alois Alzheimer on November 4 1906 in Tubingen. The celebratory event "Alzheimer 100 Years and Beyond" was organized through the Alzheimer community in Germany and worldwide in collaboration with the Fondation Ipsen. This volume a collection of articles by the invited speakers and of a few other prominent researchers is published as a record of those events. Table of contents : Foreword.- Beginning.- Pioneers in the 60s.- Anatomy and neuropsychology.- Cholinergic deficit.- Amyloid.- Genetics.- Secretases.- ApoE.- Tau.- Oxidative stress.- Epidemiology.- Imaging.- Therapeutical perspectives.- Forum and network.- References