Amy Katherine Reeve • Kim Jennifer Krishnan
Michael R. Duchen • Doug M. Turnbull
Editors

2012

The loss of neurons at any stage of life is a catastrophic event. These post-mitotic cells lack an ability to regenerate, and therefore their loss later in life will inevitably lead to functional defects. The most widely known diseases in which neuronal cell loss occurs are related to advancing age, for example, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, but there are several neurodegenerative diseases which tend to occur at a much younger age, for example, multiple sclerosis and motor neuron disease.