Normal and abnormal memory: aging and Alzheimer's disease -- Stress, glucocorticoids, and hippocampal aging in rat and human -- Spatial cognition and functional alterations of aged rat hippocampus -- Identification of molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory: the impact of gene targeting -- Normal aging and Alzheimer's disease -- Transgenic mouse models with neurofilament-induced pathologies -- Transgenic models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease -- Toward a genetic analysis of unusually successful neural aging -- The role of the presenilins in Alzheimer's disease -- Mechanisms of neuron death in neurodegenerative diseases of the elderly: role of the Lewy body -- Microtubule-associated protein tau: biochemical modifications, degradation, and Alzheimer's disease -- A novel gene in the armadillo family interacts with presenilin 1 -- Putative links between some of the key pathological features of the Alzheimer's brain -- Unraveling the controversy of human prion protein diseases -- Translational control, apoptosis, and the aging brain -- Astrocyte senescence and the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease