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List of Contributors

Hiroaki Adachi

Department of Neurology

Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

Nagoya, Japan

Yves Agid

Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière

Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière

Paris, France

Adriano Aguzzi

Institute of Neuropathology

University Hospital Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

Lynn Bedford

School of Biomedical Sciences

University of Nottingham Medical School

Queen’s Medical Centre

Nottingham, UK

Lars Bertram

Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group

Department of Vertebrate Genomics

Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Berlin, Germany

Konrad Beyreuther

Network for Aging Research

University of Heidelberg

Heidelberg, Germany

Bradley F. Boeve

Department of Neurology

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN, USA

Heiko Braak

Center for Clinical Research

Department of Neurology

University of Ulm

Ulm, Germany

Herbert Budka

Institute of Neurology

Medical University Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Nigel J. Cairns

Department of Pathology and Immunology

Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, MO, USA

Sabina Capellari

Department of Neurological Sciences

University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

H. Brent Clark

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

University of Minnesota Medical School

Minneapolis, MN, USA

George H. Collins

Department of Pathology

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Syracuse, NY, USA

Simon D’Alton

Center for Translational Research of Neurodegenerative Disease and Department of Neuroscience

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL, USA

Richard L. Davis

Department of Pathology

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Syracuse, NY, USA

Marie Bernadette Delisle

University Hospital of Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Dennis W. Dickson

Department of Pathology (Neuropathology) and Neuroscience

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL, USA

John E. Duda

Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center

Philadelphia VA Medical Center, and Department of Neurology

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA USA

Charles Duyckaerts

Raymond Escourolle Neuropathology Laboratory

Hôpital de la Salpêtrière

Paris, France

Blas Flangione

Department of Pathology

New York University School of Medicine

New York, NY, USA

Pierluigi Gambetti

Institute of Pathology and

National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH, USA

Bernardino Ghetti

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Jorge Ghiso

Department of Pathology

New York University School of Medicine

New York, NY, USA

Michel Goedert

Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Cambridge, UK

Maria Grazia Spillantini

Brain Repair Centre

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, UK

John Hardy

Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Reta Lilla Weston Laboratories

Institute of Neurology

Queen Square

London, UK

Tomoyo Hashimoto

Department of Neuropathology

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience;

Department of Safety and Health

Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd.,

Tokyo, Japan

Jean-Jaques Hauw

Anatomopathologie (Neurologique) Hôpital Pitiè-Salpêtrière

Paris, France

Mark W. Head

National CJD Surveillance Unit

Western General Hospital

Edinburgh, UK

John C. Hedreen

Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center

Department of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital

Belmont, MA, USA

Janice L. Holton

Department of Molecular Neuroscience

UCL Institute of Neurology

University College London

London, UK

Tibor Hortobágy

Department of Clinical Neuroscience

NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research

Institute of Psychiatry

King’s College London

London, UK

Paul G. Ince

Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Department of Neuroscience

University of Sheffield

Sheffield, UK

James W. Ironside

National CJD Surveillance Unit

Western General Hospital

Edinburgh, UK

Kurt A. Jellinger

Institute of Clinical Neurobiology

Medical University Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Veronika Kana

University Hospital Zürich

Institute of Neuropathology

Zürich, Switzerland

Shinsuke Kato

Department of Neuropathology

Institute of Neurological Sciences

Tottori University

Yonago, Japan

Masahisa Katsuno

Department of Neurology

Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine;

Institute for Advanced Research

Nagoya University,

Nagoya, Japan

Richard S.G. Knight

National CJD Surveillance Unit

Western General Hospital

Edinburgh, UK

David Knopman

Department of Neurology

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN, USA

Arnulf H. Koeppen

VA Medical Center and Departments of Neurology and Pathology

Albany Medical College

Albany, NY, USA

Quingzhong Kong

National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH, USA

Gabor G. Kovacs

Institute of Neurology Medical University Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Tammaryn Lashley

Department of Molecular Neuroscience

UCL Institute of Neurology

University College London

London,UK

Robert Layfield

School of Biomedical Sciences

University of Nottingham Medical School

Queen’s Medical Centre

Nottingham, UK

Andrew J. Lees

Department of Molecular Neuroscience

UCL Institute of Neurology

University College London

London, UK

Jada Lewis

Center for Translational Research of Neurodegenerative Disease and Department of Neuroscience University of Florida

Gainesville, FL, USA

Irene Litvan

Department of Neurology

University of Louisville School of Medicine

Louisville, KY, USA

Seth Love

Department of Neuropathology

Institute of Clinical Neurosciences

University of Bristol

Bristol, UK

James Lowe

School of Molecular Medical Sciences

University of Nottingham Medical School

Queen’s Medical Centre

Nottingham, UK

Ian R.A. Mackenzie

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Colin L. Masters

Mental Health Research Institute

National Neuroscience Facility

The University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

R. John Mayer

School of Biomedical Sciences

University of Nottingham Medical School

Queen’s Medical Centre

Nottingham, UK

Catriona Ann McLean

Department of Anatomical Pathology

The Alfred Hospital

Prahran, Australia

Heather Melrose

Department of Neuroscience

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL, USA

Hidehiro Mizusawa

Department of Neurology

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Tokyo, Japan

Siddhartha Mondragón-Rodríguez

Départment de Physiologie

Université de Montréal

Montreal, QC, Canada

Paula I. Moreira

Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology

University of Coimbra

Coimbra, Portugal

Huw R. Morris

MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics

Cardiff University School of Medicine

Cardiff, UK

David G. Munoz

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

St. Michael’s Hospital and Keenan Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital

University of Toronto

Toronto, ON, Canada

Manuela Neumann

Institute of Neuropathology

University Hospital of Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

James A.R. Nicoll

Clinical Neurosciences

University of Southampton School of Medicine

Southampton, UK

Akihiko Nunomura

Department of Neuropsychiatry

Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering

University of Yamanashi

Yamanashi, Japan

Koichi Okamoto

Department of Neurology

Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine

Gunma, Japan

Kiyomitsu Oyanagi

Department of Neuropathology

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience

Tokyo, Japan;

Division of Neuropathology

Department of Brain Disease Research

Shinshu University School of Medicine

Nagano, Japan

Simon Paine

School of Biomedical Sciences

University of Nottingham Medical School

Queen’s Medical Centre

Nottingham, UK

Coro Paisán-Ruiz

Departments of Neurology,

Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York, NY, USA

Piero Parchi

Department of Neurological Sciences

University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

Laura Parkkinen

Department of Molecular Neuroscience

UCL Institute of Neurology

University College London

London, UK

George Perry

Neurosciences Institute and Department of Biology

University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio, TX, USA

Pedro Piccardo

Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research

Food and Drug Administration

Rockville, MD, USA

Violetta N. Pivtoraiko

Department of Pathology

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL, USA

Gordon Plant

The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

London, UK

Gianfranco Puoti

National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH, USA

Olivier Rascol

Departments of Neurosciences and Clinical Pharmacology

University Hospital of Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Tamas Revesz

Department of Molecular Neuroscience

UCL Institute of Neurology

University College London

London, UK

Nooshin Rezvani

School of Biomedical Sciences

University of Nottingham Medical School

Queen’s Medical Centre

Nottingham, UK

Raymund A.C. Roos

Department of Neurology

Leiden University Medical Center

Leiden, The Netherlands

Martin Rossor

Dementia Research Centre

Department of Neurodegeneration

UCL Institute of Neurology

University College London

London, UK

Agueda Rostagno

Department of Pathology

New York University School of Medicine

New York, NY, USA

Kevin A. Roth

Department of Pathology

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL, USA

Naruhiko Sahara

Center for Translational Research of Neurodegenerative Disease and Department of Neuroscience University of Florida

Gainesville, FL, USA

Mark A. Smith

Deceased

Department of Pathology

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH, USA

Gen Sobue

Department of Neurology

Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

Nagoya, Japan

Salvatore Spina

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Michael J. Strong

Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences

The University of Western Ontario and the Robarts Research Institute

London, ON, Canada

Fabrizio Tagliavini

Division of Neuropathology

Carlo Besta Neurological Institute

Milan, Italy

Hitoshi Takahashi

Department of Pathology

Brain Research Institute

Niigata University

Niigata, Japan

Rudolph E. Tanzi

Genetics and Aging Research Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Charlestown, MA, USA

Markus Tolnay

Institute of Pathology

Basel University Hospital

Basel, Switzerland

Shoji Tsuji

Department of Neurology

Graduate School of Medicine

University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Ruben Vidal

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Roy O. Weller

Clinical Neurosciences

University of Southampton School of Medicine

Southampton, UK

Robert G. Will

National CJD Surveillance Unit

Western General Hospital

Edinburgh, UK

Zbigniew K. Wszolek

Department of Neurology

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL, USA

Mitsunori Yamada

Department of Clinical Research

Saigata National Hospital

Niigata, Japan

Mineo Yamazaki

Department of Neuropathology

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience;

Department of Neurology

Nippon Medical School

Tokyo, Japan

Xiongwei Zhu

Department of Pathology

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH, USA

Wenquan Zou

National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH, USA

Preface

One of the major roles of the International Society of Neuropathology (ISN) is to promote world-wide education and research in the pathology of neurological disease for the enhancement of care and treatment of patients. As the interface between neuropathology and other scientific and clinical disciplines became increasingly blurred, a series of books on the “Pathology and Genetics” of neurological disease was initiated by Dr Paul Kleihues to promote mutual understanding and collaboration.

The first book in the series was on Brain Tumours (1997); that is now in its fourth edition as the WHO Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System, edited by David N. Louis, Hiroko Ohgaki, Otmar D. Wiestler and Webster K. Cavenee and published by WHO Press (2007). A further four books were published by ISN between 2001 and 2005 with Yngve Olsson as Series Editor: Structural and Molecular Basis of Skeletal Muscle Diseases, Volume Editor George Karpati (2002); Neurodegeneration: The Molecular Pathology of Dementia and Movement Disorders, Volume Editor Dennis Dickson (2003); Developmental Neuropathology , Volume Editors Jeffrey A. Golden and Brian Harding (2004); Pathology and Genetics of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Volume Editor Hannu Kalimo (2005). Each volume brought together expertise from multiple international authors writing in a standard format that allowed readers to navigate the different chapters with ease. These features led to the considerable success of the series.

Publication of the “Pathology and Genetics” series has entered a new phase with a new publisher and a new Series Editor. As publisher of the very successful ISN Journal Brain Pathology, Wiley-Blackwell has been appointed to publish the ISN book series. Following wide international consultation, a second edition of Neurodegeneration: The Molecular Pathology of Dementia and Movement Disorders was selected as a priority for publication with Dennis Dickson and Roy Weller as Volume Editors. This reflects the considerable and momentous advances that have occurred in the field of neurodegeneration since the publication of the first edition. Many of the authors from the first edition have been retained and every chapter has been rewritten and thoroughly updated. The format that is familiar to readers of the first edition has also been retained but new sections have been added to reflect advances in the field. In its multidisciplinary approach, the volume concentrates on pathology, genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry in relation to clinical aspects of neurodegenerative disease, imaging and the new therapies that are on the horizon. There is some overlap between volumes in the series, such that vascular dementia is covered in the previous book on cerebrovascular diseases.

I would like to thank Dennis Dickson as Volume Editor for establishing the structure of the current book on neurodegeneration and for inspiring the authors. Our thanks go to the 96 authors who put so much effort and expertise into ensuring the high quality of the text and illustrations. Sadly, one author, Mark Smith, died in a road accident at the end of 2010 but will be remembered through his contribution to this book.

Finally, who will benefit from reading this book on neurodegeneration? Our aim was to provide succinct and well-ordered chapters for instant access to the concepts and many of the details of the pathology and genetics of neurodegenerative disease to further the multidisciplinary interests of pathologists, clinicians and neuroscientists involved in research and in the diagnosis and care of patients with neurodegenerative disease. We trust that our aspirations will be fulfilled.

Roy O. Weller

Series Editor