Tuesday Video News from the 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease

Each morning at the 2009 ICAD conference, there is a media session featuring researchers who will be speaking or presenting that day. The session is recorded and posted online as brief videos. The theme for the Tuesday session was “Alzheimer's disease Biomarkers: Update from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.”

Michael Ewers, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, discusses multi-dimensional biomarker-based diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Susan M. Landau, PhD, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, talks about her presentation “Comparing Predictors of Conversion: Data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.”

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Dawn Matthews, Chief Executive Officer and President, Abiant, Inc, discusses “Hippocampal Glucose Metabolism Predicts Cognitive Decline and Correlates to Disease Progression in the ADNI Population.”

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Additional video footage from Tuesday, including a Q&A press briefing with assembled members of the media, is available here.