ICAD 2010: Detection may hold the key to treatment

Abstract

The Alzheimers Association International Conference on Alzheimers Disease was held on July 10-15 in Honolulu (HI, USA). Over 3800 attendees participated, attending sessions that included more than 1700 posters and 200 oral presentations. The meeting, first organized in 1988 by Khalid Iqbal and Bengt Winblad, became an annual event in 2009, and under the current design includes not only well-established themes of interest, but investigator-initiated sessions also. The Alzheimers Association started managing the conference in 2000 in partnership with the founders, and abstracts for the meeting are published in the associations journal, Alzheimers & Dementia. Key themes of this years conference included validation of biomarkers, drug development, the value of screening for cognitive loss and dementia and the proposal of a new criteria for Alzheimers disease. © 2010 Expert Reviews Ltd.