Research Highlights
VA scientist honored for work on Alzheimer's disease
March 16, 2006
Dr. Karen Ashe, a physician and neuroscientist at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and the University of Minnesota, was one of three recipients nationwide of this year's Potamkin Prize from the American Academy of Neurology. The award is given annually for outstanding research advances in the study of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Ashe has conducted extensive animal studies on factors in the brain that cause memory loss. Her team recently reported on a newly identified substance that appears to disrupt memory independent of brain changes commonly associated with Alzheimer's, such as the loss of brain cells of the buildup of sticky protein plaques.
Lesne S, Koh MT, Kotilinek L, Kayed R, Glabe CG, Yang A, Gallagher M, Ashe KH. A specific amyloid-beta protein assembly in the brain impairs memory. Nature. 2006 Mar 16;440(7082):284-5.
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