Genetics, Neurology, Behavior, and Diet in Dementia

Part I: Genetics, molecular and cellular biology 1. The neuron navigator 2 gene and Alzheimer's diseaseChun Xu, Brenda Bin Su, Stephanie Lozano and Kesheng Wang 2. Interlinking polymorphisms, estrogens, and Alzheimer diseaseLu Hua Chen, Leung Wing Chu and You-Qiang Song 3. Linking EEGs, Alzheimer disease, and the phosphatidylinositol-binding clathrin assembly protein (PICALM) geneNatalya Ponomareva, Tatiana Andreeva, Vitaly Fokin, Sergey Illarioshkin and Evgeny Rogaev 4. CD36 gene polymorphisms and Alzheimer's diseaseOmar serý, Nandu Goswami and Vladimir J. Balcar 5. Genetic contributions to sporadic frontotemporal dementiaJessie S. Carr, Daniel W. Sirkis and Jennifer S. Yokoyama 6. Clinical response to cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia: the role of CYP2D6 and APOE genetic polymorphismsLuís Felipe José Ravic de Miranda, Karina Braga Gomes and Paulo Caramelli 7. A1 and A2 purinergic receptor expression in dementiaJ. Mendiola-Precoma, L.C. Berumen, A. Rodríguez-Cruz and G. García-Alcocer 8. Molecular aspects of metallothioneins in dementiasGemma Comes, Anna Escrig, Yasmina Manso, Olaya Fernández-Gayol, Paula Sanchis, Amalia Molinero, Mercedes Giralt, Javier Carrasco and Juan Hidalgo 9. Implication of microRNAs in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesisKatarzyn Marta Zoltowska, Katarzyna Laskowska-Kaszub, Siranjeevi Nagaraj and Urszula Wojda 10. Role of cellular oxidative stress in dementiaGiovanna Galliciotti, Antonella De Jaco, Diego Sepulveda-Falla, Emanuela D'Acunto and Elena Miranda 11. Toward an integrative understanding of the neuroinflammatory molecular milieu in Alzheimer disease neurodegenerationJuan M. Zolezzi, Paulina Villaseca and Nibaldo C. Inestrosa 12. Wnt signaling and dementiaCarolina Alquezár and Ángeles Martín-Requero 13. Linkage of atypical protein kinase C to Alzheimer diseaseRobert V. Farese and Mini P. Sajan 14. Linking histone deacetylases and phosphodiesterase 5 in novel treatments for Alzheimer's diseaseAna Garcia-Osta and Mar Cuadrado-Tejedor 15. Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 in Alzheimer's diseaseKelsey E. Murphy and Joshua J. Park 16. Implications of alpha- and beta-secretase expression and function in Alzheimer's diseaseSven Reinhardt and Kristina Endres 17. Methylation analysis of DNA in Alzheimer's diseaseFabio Coppedè 18. The signalosome malfunctions in age-associated neuropathologiesRicardo Puertas-Avendaño, David Quinto-Alemany, Miriam González-Gómez and Raquel Marin 19. FAM3C in Alzheimer's disease: a risk-related molecule and potential therapeutic targetMasaki Nishimura, Naoki Watanabe, Emi Hibino, Masaki Nakano, Yachiyo Mitsuishi, Lei Liu and Takuma Sugi 20. Amylin and amylin receptors in Alzheimer's diseaseWen Fu and Jack H. Jhamandas 21. Mammalian target of rapamycin complexes: regulation and Alzheimer's diseaseHenry Querfurth and Han-Kyu Lee 22. Mammalian target of rapamycin complexes: protein synthesis and autophagy, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal dementiaHenry Querfurth and Han-Kyu Lee 23. Linking CD200 in brains and dementia: molecular aspects of neuroinflammationDouglas Gordon Walker Part II: Neurological, physiological and imaging 24. Hippocampal atrophy associated with dementia risk factors and dementiaHiroshi Yao, Yuko Araki, Fumio Yamashita, Makoto Sasaki and Manabu Hashimoto 25. Inflammation and insulin resistance in Alzheimer's disease: partners in crimeYuval Nash and Dan Frenke 26. Brain susceptibility to hypoxia/hypoxemia and metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: insights from animal and in vitro modelsVito Antonio Baldassarro, Andrea Bighinati, Michele Sannia, Luciana Giardino and Laura Calzà 27. Neuropeptides and neurolipids: what they are and how they relate to Alzheimer's diseaseIván Manuel, Laura Lombardero, Alberto Llorente-Ovejero and Rafael Rodríguez-Puertas 28.