Neurodegenerative disorders
The images show amyloid imaging (left, image by A Varrone and L Farde)
and grafted stem cells (right, image by L Brundin)
Neurodegeneration is the overarching term for conditions with progressive loss of function and eventually death of neurons participating in motor, sensory or cognitive functions.
Neurodegenerative disorders include for example Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's diseases and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Scientists in the field cover all areas of research from basic experimental studies, cell/stem cell and animal models to clinical studies using an array of methods with the aims to understand the disease mechanisms, develop tools for early diagnosis and to find strategies for treatment and prevention.
Research groups
- Maria Ankarcrona, cell degeneration mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease
- Ernest Arenas, development and generation of dopamine neurons
- Homira Behbahani, Alzheimer's disease mechanisms
- Ingemar Björkhem, oxysterols in health and disease
- Klas Blomgren, injury and repair in the developing brain
- Lennart Brodin, presynaptic mechanisms
- Andrea Carmine Belin, Parkinson's disease: genetic factors
- Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, epigenetic states during oligodendrocyte development
- Sandra Ceccatelli, developmental neurotoxicology
- Angel Cedazo-Minguez, neurodegenerative disease mechanisms
- Ulf Diczfalusy, oxysterols in health and disease
- Henrik Druid, forensic medicine
- Maria Eriksdotter Jönhagen, Alzheimer's disease: diagnostics and therapy
- Dagmar Galter, neurodegeneration, Parkinson's disease
- Caroline Graff, genetics of neurodegenerative diseases
- Agneta Herlitz, geriatric psychology
- Jan Johansson, biological dementia research
- Helena Karlström, Alzheimer's disease: focus on gamma-secretase
- Krister Kristensson, neurodegenerative disease mechanisms
- Johan Lökk, stroke, parkinson, dementia
- Abdul Mohammed, behavior and environment in dementia
- Agneta Nordberg, Alzheimer's disease, PET imaging, neuroplasticity
- Lars Olson, regeneration, transplantation, Parkinson's disease
- Jin-Jing Pei, Alzheimer's disease mechanisms
- Thomas Perlmann, molecular developmental biology and stem cells
- Jonathan Prince, genotyping in Alzheimer's disease
- Marianne Schultzberg, inflammatory mechanisms in neurodegeneration
- Åke Seiger, transplantation and repair
- Thomas Sejersen, neuropediatrics
- Oleg Shupliakov, neuronal membrane trafficking
- Erik Sundström, transplantation and repair
- Lars Tjernberg, gamma-secretase and the amyloid beta-peptide
- Brun Ulfhake, mechanisms in aging
- Matti Viitanen, geriatrics
- Lars-Olof Wahlund, Alzheimer's disease: diagnostics and therapy
- Eric Westman, biomarkers in neurodegenerative disorders
- Bengt Winblad, Alzheimer's disease, geriatrics
- Jie Zhu, neuroinflammation and neuroimmunity
- Dag Årsland, translational geriatric neuropsychiatry
