Neuroscience Grand Rounds - Adam M. Brickman

"Alzheimer's Disease or Alzheimer's Diseases? Contemporary Classification and the Role of White Matter Abnormalities"

A weekly, hour-long lecture given by invited speakers. Speakers are from within the Yale community or outside institutions. Speakers are invited from department faculty suggestions. Grand Rounds is a forum for clinical and basic research updates in the field of Neurology and Neuroscience with respect to diagnosis and management of neurological disorders and advances in the neurosciences. This series will run for the academic year.

Texting code for today's session: 35596

Program Goal:

1. Describe current conceptual models of Alzheimer's disease classification and some of their caveats.
2. Discuss evidence for the involvement of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and their possible etiology, in dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
3. Describe the extent to which WMH may interact with amyloid pathology and have a direct effect on tau-mediated neurodegeneration.

Target Audience: Neurology

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