International registry of people with Down syndrome and coronavirus
The Alzheimer-Down Unit (Catalan Down Syndrome Foundation and Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau) participates in an international registry of people with Down syndrome affected by the coronavirus COVID-19 infection. This registry is powered by the Scientific...
Estrella Morenas defends her Doctoral Thesis
Estrella Morenas has defended today her Doctoral Thesis entitled “Multimodal biomarkers studies in the continuum Dementia with Lewy bodies – Alzheimer’s disease“. The academical act of defense of her doctoral thesis has taken place at the...
The Sant Pau Memory Unit validates a technique for the early detection of Alzheimer’s
The Sant Pau Memory Unit has published a study that establishes reference values for a technique that allows the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. This technique detects alterations in disease-related proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients by...
How do Alzheimer’s biomarkers change over time?
Biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease The characteristic symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, such as progressive memory loss or other cognitive deficits and behavioral disorders, can make us suspect the diagnosis of this disease. This suspicion...
Super-resolution is here for amyloid plaques
Non-fibrillar amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques are considered to be a critical component of Alzheimer’s disease. Characterization of these species comes mainly from studies in cellular or animal models, but there is little data in intact human samples due to the lack of...
In our recent publication, we analyze cortical microstructure in frontotemporal dementia
The behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by a progressive personality change. Given that patients maintain their cognitive abilities relatively intact in the early stages of the disease, the diagnosis requires...
Ignacio Illán-Gala defends his doctoral thesis on frontotemporal degeneration
Today, Ignacio Illán-Gala has defended his Doctoral Thesis entitled “Pathophysiological and structural underpinnings of frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a multimodal biomarker study“, co-directed by Dr. Alberto Lleó and Dr. Juan Fortea. This exceptional...
III Symposium of the DEGESCO Consortium
On May 16th, the III Symposium of the DEGESCO Consortium on Dementia Genetics will be held in Málaga, in the context of the VI Málaga Alzheimer Conference, sponsored by CIBERNED and the Andalusian Institute of Neuroscience. During the DEGESCO symposium, the ongoing...