Kennedy’s Disease and Recent Research

The 2011 Kennedy’s Disease annual conference and educational symposium was held this month.  Over twenty researchers were involved in the conference and many gave updates on their current research.

Jack Durning recorded some of the presentations and released them to YouTube this week. 

Presentations Available

Ed Meyertholen, the KDA’s guru in explaining Kennedy’s Disease, was one of the presenters.  From the attendees after-conference survey, most everyone rated Ed’s discussion as one of the most interesting.  Ed’s presentation is five 15 minute videos and one six minute video.  Ed explains Kennedy’s Disease, DNA, bindings, folding, the ‘wood-chipper’, cytoplasm, clinical trials, placebos and much more.

Ed, unfortunately, did not use a mike.  There were many times he was not facing the recorder’s mike so he is more difficult to hear.

Part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Jooy9LD_4
Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1m82l164Q
Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf4BQT2fEec
Part 4:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK1Ag-bTSsw
Part 5:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-UPuQTJCfo
Part 6:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkDQVumf7-E

Below is a link to Dr. Lenore Bietel’s presentation.  Lenore is a Kennedy’s Disease researcher located in Canada.  She gives a thirteen minute presentation on her lab’s research project including discussing whether the PolyQ AR clogs up Proteosomes as well as a study of the androgen receptor and the protein interaction connection.

Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNg88tasvqI

And, the following link is for Dr. Masahisa Katsuno’s presentation of his research including an explanation of neuro-degeneration and the leuprorelin clinical trial.  This recording starts a few minutes late into the presentation.

Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6gPGUgI-KY

QUESTIONS?  If you have any questions, please let me know and I will try to have them answered.