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Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and other forms of neurodegeneration
— success to date and current research | | Author(s) | R John Mayer |
| Journal title | In: Dementia in focus: research, care and policy into the 21st century; Centre for Policy on Ageing, Research into Ageing, 1998 |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 7-20 (CPA reports, 24) |
| Source | Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, Chadwell Heath, Dagenham, RM8 1RX. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Diagnosis ; Biological sciences ; Research. |
| Annotation | Our understanding of dementing illness and its relationship with the underlying molecular neuropathology is examined, with reference to the author's work at the University of Nottingham with Rob Layfield, a research fellow funded by Research into Ageing. The study is made accessible to a non-scientific audience: trees are used as an analogy to the nerve cell structure. This in turn helps to explain a classic feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the tangles of part of the roadways in nerve cells. The paper explains Lewy body dementia, and plaques such as Alzheimer precursor protein (APP) which may account for familial AD. Genetics is important in our understanding of dementia, which has been altered dramatically with the discovery of a protein called ubiquitin. The ability to build up information from other experts as is being done in the Nottingham research will lead to improved diagnoses and appropriate therapies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981109002 A |
| Classmark | EA: LK7: Y7: 3A |
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