Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Clinical-General and Overlap between Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease

   1. Visual Processing in Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Gastone G. Celesia, Alessandro E. P. Villa, Mitchell Brigell, John M. Lee, Einar Sigurdsson

      Pages 1-11

   2. Stereopsis in Alzheimer’s Disease: Measuring Binocular Eye Movement

      • S. Murakami, M. Fujii, R. Fukatsu, N. Nakano, N. Takahata, K. Uomori et al.

      Pages 13-17

   3. Visual Cognition and Language Function in Alzheimer’s Disease

      • M. Fujii, S. Murakami, S. Hayashi, N. Nakano, K. Utsumi, R. Fukatsu et al.

      Pages 19-24

   4. Variables Affecting Visuospatial Primary Memory Defect in Alzheimer’s Disease: Preliminary Data

      • Dario Grossi, Laura Chiacchio, Gennaro De Luca, Luigi Trojano

      Pages 25-28

   5. Articulatory Deficits in Parkinson’s and Huntington’s Disease: An Acoustic Analysis

      • Hermann Ackermann, Wolfram Ziegler

      Pages 29-32

   6. Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease with Dementia: Comparison of Cortical Blood Flow Demonstrated by Three-Dimensional Surface Display

      • K. Kawabata, H. Tachibana, Y. Tomino, M. Takeda, B. Okuda, M. Sugita

      Pages 33-38

   7. Correlation between Severity of Dementia and Decreased Cerebral Blood Flow in Alzheimer’s Disease and Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type

      • K. Kawabata, H. Tachibana, Y. Tomino, M. Sugita

      Pages 39-44

   8. Cerebral Blood Flow at Rest and During Cognitive Activation in Patients with Moderate Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type

      • Alfredo Postiglione, Andrea Soricelli, Simona De Chiara, Maurizio Romano, Antonio Ruocco, Gaetano Pellegrino et al.

      Pages 45-49

   9. Usefulness of Monitoring Left Ventricular Function by an Ambulatory Radionuclide Detector (VEST) in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Postural Hypotension

      • Antonio Nappi, Alberto Cuocolo, Teodoro Marotta, Liberato A. Ferrara, Nicolangelo Iazzetta, Leonardo Pace et al.

      Pages 51-54

   10. Frontal Dysfunction and Memory Deficit in Depression and Parkinson’s Disease

       • Eeva-Liisa Helkala, Veikko Laulumaa, Jaana Järvinen, Paavo Riekkinen

       Pages 55-61

   11. Cellular Acetylcholine Receptor Expression in the Brain of Patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Dementia

       • Hannsjörg Schröder, Christina Lobron, Andrea Wevers, Alfred Maelicke, Ezio Giacobini

       Pages 63-67

   12. The Contribution of Non-Dopaminergic Pathology to Cognitive, Motor and Affective Disability in Parkinson’s Disease

       • H. J. Sagar, L. Atchison, S. M. Doherty, M. C. Ball, J. A. Cooper

       Pages 69-76

   13. Clinical, Pathological and Neurochemical Characteristics of Lewy Body Dementia

       • Elaine K. Perry, Robert H. Perry, Ian G. Mckeith, Margaret A. Piggott, Philip Smith, Elizabeth Marshall

       Pages 77-86

   14. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is Not an Infectious Disease

       • Amos D. Korczyn

       Pages 87-93

3. Beta-Amyloid Precursor Protein, Tau, and Mechanism of Cell Death

   1. Normal Production of the Amyloid β-Protein and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Dennis J. Selkoe, Christian Haass, Michael Schlossmacher, Albert Hung, Martin Citron, David Teplow

      Pages 95-97

   2. Modulation of APP Processing by Neurotransmission

      • Roger M. Nitsch, Barbara E. Slack, Steven A. Farber, Meihua Deng, Paul R. Borghesani, Richard J. Wurtman et al.

      Pages 99-103

   3. Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Gene Expression is Controlled by a NFkB/Rel Related Protein

      • Mariagrazia Grilli, Marina Ribola, Antonella Alberici, Alessandra Valerio, Maurizio Memo, PierFranco Spano

      Pages 105-110

   4. Specific Cleavage of β-Amyloid Precursor Protein by an Integral Membrane Metalloendopeptidase

      • Susan Boseman Roberts, Kim M. Ingalls, James A. Ripellino, Nikolaos K. Robakis, Kevin M. Felsenstein

      Pages 111-118

   5. Amyloidogenic Fragments of Amyloid Precursor Protein in Cells Cultured under Leupeptin

      • Kayo Tsuzuki, Ryo Fukatsu, Yuji Takamaru, Nobuhiro Fujii, Naohiko Takahata

      Pages 119-125

This book represents the third in a series of International Conferences related to Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's (PD) diseases. The first one took place in Eilat, Israel, in 1985; and the second one in Kyoto, Japan, in 1989. This book contains the full text of oral and poster presentations from the Third International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases: Recent Developments, held in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. on November 1-6, 1993. The Chicago Conference was attended by 270 participants. The Scientific Program was divided into nine oral sessions, a keynote presentation, and a poster session. The conference culminated in a Round Table Discussion involving all of the participants in the conference. The four and one-half day meeting served as an excellent medium for surveying the current status of clinical and preclinical developments in AD and PD. There were 59 oral presentations and 93 posters. This book incorporates a majority of both.

• Alzheimer
• Parkinson
• dementia
• epidemiology
• genetics

• Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA

  Israel Hanin

• Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan

  Mitsuo Yoshida

• Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel

  Abraham Fisher

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