NIH R01 · 2024
Cortical Alpha-Synuclein in Dementia
Abstract Lewy-Body dementias, including Parkinson’s disease Dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodies, are devastating, multi-system diseases and a major cause of dementia worldwide. Patients have characteristic symptoms that suggest dysfunction of the frontal-network, including difficulty with planning, fluctuating attention and impaired flexible learning. The pathology of patients with dementia includes widespread aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein (𝛼-syn) in the frontal cortex and other extra-nigral regions. Despite this association, the role of 𝛼-syn pathology beyond the dopaminergic system remains unclear. There is a critical need to understand how -syn affects network function…
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