Neurobiology of diseases

G. Legname, 16 hours


  • Introduction to neurodegenerative diseases

  • Prion and prion-like disorders

  • Prion protein and prions: from function to disease

  • Alzheimer disease

  • Parkinson disease

  • TDP43: ALS and frontotemporal degeneration

  • Trinucleotide repeats disorders

  • Primary and secondary taupathies

  • Advance diagnostics od neurodegeneration: PMCA and RT-QuIC

  • Current treatments of neurodegenerative diseases