Neurodegeneration is the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons, including the death of neurons. Many neurodegenerative diseases – including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Huntington's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, – occur as a result of neurodegenerative processes. The greatest risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases is aging. Mitochondrial DNA mutations as well as oxidative stress both contribute to aging. Many of these diseases are late-onset, meaning there is some factor that changes as a person ages for each disease. One constant factor is that in each disease, neurons gradually lose function as the disease progresses with age. It has been proposed that DNA damage accumulation provides the underlying causative link between aging and neurodegenerative disease.
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Related Conferences:
World Congress on Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, July 23-24, 2019 at Berlin, Germany | 5th Global Experts Meeting on Parkinson’s, Huntington’s & Movement Disorders, May 08-09, 2019, at Tokyo, Japan | 5th World Parkinson Congress, June 4-7,2019, at Kyoto, Japan | 5th International Conference on Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders, October 19-20, 2018, at New York, USA | Movement Disorders in Children and Young Adults, November 22-23, 2018, at Groningen, Netherlands
Related Association and Societies:
American Academy of Neurology; Movement Disorders Society; The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society; Canadian Movement Disorders Group; UK Parkinson’s Action Network; European Neurological Society; European Parkinson’s Disease Association; Danish Movement Disorder Society; Italian Society for the study of Parkinson Disease; Extrapyramidal Diseases and Dementia; Movement Disorder Society of Australia; Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Society of India; Australian Parkinson’s Disease Society; Movement Disorder Society of Japan