Christiana Kontaxi

Dopaminergic Circuit Function, Metabolism, and Selective Vulnerability

Christiana Kontaxi, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she works with Prof R. Edwards to advance her research on membrane trafficking and synaptic physiology. Using mouse models of Parkinson’s disease (PD), she has been exploring the role of critical pathogenic factors, such as LRRK2 and α-synuclein, in synaptic transmission. Previously, Christiana received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK, where her work focused on synaptic vesicle trafficking in a rat model of epilepsy.

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Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease dementia - the same or different and is it important?

Biological definitions of neurological diseases are now becoming a reality, although still in the research phase. This development will recategorize neurological diseases, providing objective diagnostics and the promise of therapeutics that target biological mechanisms — similar to the strategy that has proven successful in tumours and other conditions. In this...

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