Neurodegenerative disease of the brain: a survey of interdisciplinary approaches.

Journal: Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
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Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases of the brain pose a major and increasing global health challenge, with only limited progress made in developing effective therapies over the last decade. Interdisciplinary research is improving understanding of these diseases and this article reviews such approaches, with particular emphasis on tools and techniques drawn from physics, chemistry, artificial intelligence and psychology.

Authors

  • Franca Davenport
    Freelance writer and King's College London, London, UK.
  • John Gallacher
    Director of Dementias Platform, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Zoe Kourtzi
    Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: zk240@cam.ac.uk.
  • Ivan Koychev
    Senior Clinical Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Paul M Matthews
    Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  • Neil P Oxtoby
    UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing and Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, UK.
  • Laura M Parkes
    School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
  • Viola Priesemann
    Department of Non-linear Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.
  • James B Rowe
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
  • Stephen W Smye
    School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
  • Henrik Zetterberg
    Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.