sep
2017
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Note – This seminar is given in Swedish!
WEDNESDAY ACADEMY.
Light lunch is offered – first come first served!
Positive emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging method that contributed to modern knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease. InAlzheimer’s disease the proteins beta-amyloid and tau accumulate in the brain, constituting the most important pathological finding of the disease. By using PET, researchers now begin to pinpoint differences between a brain that will age normally, and a brain that potentially will develop a dementia disease.
Michael Schöll has been recruited to GU through Wallenberg Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine, and now establishes PET as a neurological research method in Gothenburg. He got his PhD at Karolinska Institutet, and has conducted research on Alzheimer’s disease in world-leading imaging method groups in Sweden and the US.