6th Neurological Disorders Summit (NDS-2021) was held virtually from June 21-23, 2021, organized by United Scientific Group, a nonprofit organization. This three-day conference had gathered 115 participants from 25 countries; had 30 oral presentations and 35 poster presentations and more than 50 delegates on a wide variety of topics on Neurological Disorders and the related fields. Here are the highlights of some topics in the Summit.

The keynote session on Day 1 started with the talk of Dr. Zang-Hee Cho (Seoul National University, South Korea) who developed world’s first circular ring PET, presented on “Ultra-High Field PET-MRI Imaging for Neurological Disorders– from Parkinson’s to Alzheimer’s”. Jin Jun Luo (Temple University, PA, USA) given keynote talked on “Homocysteine and Dementia in Parkinson disease”, suggesting Parkinson’s and dementia are neurodegenerative disorders that are frequently seen in the elderly. Homocysteine (Hcy) is an intermediary metabolite from methylation, which is highly relevant to body physiologic activities including DNA metabolism. Yury Chernoff (Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA) elaborated “Yeast Models for Studying Aggregation of Proteins, Involved in Alzheimer’s disease” suggested Cross-β fibrous aggregates (amyloids) is implicated in a variety of human diseases. Some amyloids possess transmissible (prion) properties. Amyloid formation by Aβ and tau proteins has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Perrier Veronique (University of Montpellier, France) talked on “Fungicide Residues Exacerbate β-amyloid Aggregates and Vascular Amyloid Antipathy in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s disease” and told how pesticide residues have contaminated our environment and nutrition over the last century and suggested that the presence of these residues can long term effect on human health is of concern.

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