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Join the Alzheimer’s Association for a series of webinars that discuss how dementia and Alzheimer's research can move science forward despite the barriers created by the COVID-19 pandemic. These webinars share the latest advances in neuroscience, as well as strategies for career development and researcher education.

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ISTAART Journal Club: Meet the Author

Aug. 10, 2021
9 a.m. CT

Courtney Kloske will lead a conversation with Jason Ulrich about the paper, Selective Removal of Astrocytic APOE4 Strongly Protects Against Tau-Mediated Neurodegeneration and Decreases Synaptic Phagocytosis by Microglia, published in Neuron.

Mica Clarke will lead a conversation with James Rowe and Thomas Cope about the paper, Neuroinflammation and Protein Aggregation Co-Localize Across the Frontotemporal Dementia Spectrum, published in Brain.

CTAM PIA: Perspectives on Adaptive Trials and Future Trial Designs

Aug. 11, 2021
8 a.m CT

Robust and reliable decision-making is critically important at any stage of development of therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. Longer duration of follow-up before observing any efficacy and resultant higher likelihood of missing data, and large intra- and inter-individual heterogeneity in symptomatic expressions pose significant challenges for interim decision-making in particular. In this workshop, we discuss some of the mistakes in futility analyses in AD trials, including those targeting pre-symptomatic participants, and provide practical considerations on how to improve the interim decision making process. After two lectures, a panel of statisticians and clinicians from industry, regulatory and academia will provide their perspectives on future directions for interim analyses.

Speakers:
Scott Emerson, Jian Zhu, Paul Aisen, Shobha Dhadda, Maria Tome, Dominic Trépel and Hiroko Dodge

Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems PIA and The Eye as a Biomarker for AD PIA: Neuromodulatory Correlates of Pupil Dilation

Aug. 17, 2021
10 a.m. CT

Subcortical neuromodulatory nuclei are the first brain regions that accumulate Alzheimer’s-related tau pathology. While the small size and location of these nuclei has long hampered in-vivo imaging, recent findings link luminance-independent changes in pupil dilation to neuromodulatory activity. We discuss evidence for a noradrenergic, cholinergic and serotonergic role in the modulation of pupil dilation across animals and humans.

Panelists:
Siddhartha Joshi, Fanny Cazettes and Jan Willem de Gee

Alzheimer's Association Awardee Update: Cindy Weinstein

Aug. 26, 2021
3 p.m. CT

Cindy Weinstein and Bruce Miller will be discussing and reading from their book, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain, a memoir of Jerry Weinstein, Cindy’s beloved father who died from early onset Alzheimer’s. Their combined expertise across literature and neurology creates a lyrical, informative, and deeply interdisciplinary account of dementia.

Speakers:
Cindy Weinstein and Bruce Miller

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