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LEC # TOPICS
1 What can neuroimaging tell us about the aging brain and cognition?
2 Recollection and familiarity in healthy aging
3 Working memory in aging and Alzheimer disease
4 Emotional memory in aging and age-related disease
5 Implicit memory
Mid-term test (one hour)
6 Alzheimer disease: Natural history, genetics, and pathophysiology
7 Alzheimer disease: Early molecular biology, genetics, transgenic animals
8 Alzheimer disease: Molecular biology of current AD therapies
9 Alzheimer disease: ß-amyloid and LTP; distribution of AD target tissues; tauopathies
10 Parkinson disease
11 Mechanisms of apoptosis and necrosis in AD and PD