What Does Tubulin Have to Do with Alzheimer's Disease? Can we stabilize microtubules, prevent cell degeneration, and restore memory? - Dr. Nancy Woolf - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA

ABSTRACT
Since 1906, Alzheimer's disease has been known as a disease of degenerating neurons and memory decline. For over 100 years, scientists have been looking at the final stages of the disease and not focusing on what causes the trouble. What is the primary problem? Why is memory and intellectual function impaired? I will talk about microtubules, their role in neuron survival, transport, and human memory. When microtubules are stabilized, the neuron functions properly and cell degeneration does not occur. This might be the way to effectively treat Alzheimer's disease.

BIO'S SPEAKER
Dr. Nancy Woolf is a professor emeritus in the psychology department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research and teaching interests, which focused on nanoscale structures in the central nervous system and the participation of those structures in higher cognition, also included the study of cytoskeletal abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease, microtubules and microtubule-associated proteins in learning and memory, microtubule-based models of cognition, and pharmacological strategies based on proteomics. This might be the way to effectively treat Alzheimer's disease

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