AMiNDR: A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research

32 - CSF & Mixed Biomarkers: Alzheimer's Disease June 2020

Episode Summary

Having trouble keeping up with the literature in Alzheimer's Disease? We are here to help! Elyn is back to cover other fluid biomarkers found in the CSF in AD, as well as biomarkers found elsewhere! You will hear about neurofilament light, hormones, synaptic markers, staging MCI... Some papers on imaging also somehow made it here (surprise). Enjoy the episode and keep your eye out for more biomarker episodes coming very soon!

Episode Notes

Having trouble keeping up with the literature in Alzheimer's Disease? We are here to help!  

Elyn is back to cover other fluid biomarkers found in the CSF in AD, as well as biomarkers found elsewhere! You will hear about neurofilament light, hormones, synaptic markers, staging MCI... Some papers on imaging also somehow made it here (surprise).  

Enjoy the episode and keep your eye out for more biomarker episodes coming very soon! 

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Today's episode was scripted and hosted by Elyn Rowe, and edited by Yvonne Deng, and made possible by an entire team of volunteers behind the scenes.  

Our music is from "Journey of a Neurotransmitter" by musician and fellow neuroscientist Anusha Kamesh; you can find the original piece and her other music on soundcloud under Anusha Kamesh or on her YouTube channel, AKMusic  

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Elyn Rowe would like to acknowledge her support from the Alzheimer Society of Canada, through the Alzheimer Society Research Program. The Alzheimer Society is committed to knowledge dissemination as a key pillar in their mission to  promote the search for causes, treatments, and a cure for Alzheimer disease.

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