Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
The two-day event will take place at the Waisman Center on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6.
Adults with Down syndrome demonstrate striatum-first amyloid accumulation with [11C]Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, which has not been replicated with [18F]florbetapir (FBP). Early striatal accumulation has not been temporally quantified with respect to global cortical measures.
Recruiting parents of children with Down Syndrome who are between 1 and 24 months old.
A new review paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience from Bhattacharyya, associate professor of cell and regenerative biology, pulls together what is currently known about DS’s impact on brain development.
