Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Herrenhausen Symposium on Neurodegeneration

Nature Medicine 16, 1200 (2010), Published online: 4 November 2010 | doi:10.1038/nm1110-1200

Although the pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases have been described for over 100 years, our understanding of the molecular events leading to neuronal death has emerged over the past two decades. Despite all of this progress in basic research, why do we still lack disease-modifying therapeutics?