Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MECEDGE (Transgenic dissection of the neural circuitry of memory and dementia)

As the most common form of age-related dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an enormous and growing problem for an aging society. AD is a neurodegenerative disorder like Parkinson's disease (PD), but the former presents as a cognitive disorder, and the latter as a motor...