DESCRIPTION: We?re not getting any younger! And did you know that by the year 2020, over 40% of the US population will be older than 60 years of age! Over the next 40 years we?re facing an epidemic of neurologic/neurodegenerative diseases on a global scale. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics reported that Alzheimer?s disease surpassed diabetes as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
OBJECTIVES:
1. Describe the interaction between the cells of the CNS and response to neurosteroids
2. Present the latest literature regarding clinical conditions related to insufficiencies of neuosteroids and the appropriate therapies
3. Describe Vitamin D3?s role as a neurosteroid
4. Show the relationship between Hg toxicity and Alzheimer?s disease