2005 Fall ADRC Meeting
Directors Meeting
Updates
- NIA: From the Director.
- Richard Hodes, MD
- Genetics Initiative.
- Richard Mayeux, MD, MSc — Columbia University
Scientific Symposium: Exercise and behavioral enrichment on brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease
- Voluntary exercise decreases amyloid load and improves learning in a transgenic model of AD.
- Carl Cotman, MD — University of California, Irvine
- Environmental enrichment mitigates cognitive deficits in a mouse model of AD.
- Joanna Jankowsky, California Institute of Technology
NACC data/methods meeting
- Verification bias in studies on the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
- X.H. Andrew Zhou, PhD — NACC Biostatistician
Education core leaders meeting
- ADEAR update.
- Pat Lynch — ADEAR, NIA