Martin R. Farlow, M.D.
Professor

email: mfarlow@iupui.edu

Martin R. Farlow, MD,  currently Professor and Vice-Chairman of Research in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, has been on the faculty in Neurology since 1983. He received his MD in 1979 from Indiana University and went on to do his medicine internship between 1979 and 1980 and his neurology residency from 1980-1983, both at Indiana University. 

Dr. Farlow was President of Indiana Neurological Society between 1992 and 1994 and is a member of many other professional societies including the American Academy of Neurology, the American Society for Neurologic Investigations and the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Dementia.  

Dr. Farlow is director of the National Institute of Aging-sponsored Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Clinical Core at Indiana University and currently principal investigator on numerous research programs focusing on Alzheimer’s disease.

Over the years, Dr. Farlow has been a reviewer for numerous journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Neurology and Continuum.   He has an extensive publication record currently listing 196 peer-reviewed scientific reports and 236 abstracts.

 1.      Farlow M, Gracon SI, Hershey LA, Lewis KW, Sadowsky CH, Dolan-Ureno J.  A controlled trial of Tacrine in Alzheimer's disease.  Journal of The American Medical Association 268:2523-2529; 1992.

 

2.      Farlow M, Ghetti B, Dlouhy S, Giaccone G, Bugiani O, Tagliavini F and Wagner S.  Cerebrospinal fluid levels of amyloid ß-protein precursor are low in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, Indiana kindred.  Neurology 44:1508-1510; 1994.

 

3.      Farlow MR, Lahiri DK, Poirier J, Davignon J, Schneider L and Hui SL.  Treatment outcome of tacrine therapy depends on apolipoprotein genotype and gender of the subjects with Alzheimer’s disease. Neurology 50(3): 669-677; 1998.

 

4.      Farlow MR and Evans RE:  Pharmacologic treatment of cognition in Alzheimer’s dementia.  Neurology, 51:1 (Suppl. 1):S36-S44; 1998.

 5.      Farlow MR, Anand RV, Messina J, Hartman RC and Veach J.  A 52-week study of the efficacy of rivastigmine in patients with mild to moderately severe Alzheimer’s disease. European Neurology 44:236-241; 2000.

  6.      Farlow MR, Murrell JR, Unverzagt FW, Phillips M, Takao M, Hulette C and Ghetti B.  Familial Alzheimer’s disease with spastic paraparesis associated with a mutation at codon 261 of the presenilin 1 gene. In: K Iqbal, SS Sisodia and B Winblad (Eds.), Alzheimer’s Disease:  Advances in Etiology, Pathogenesis and Therapeutics, pp. 53-60 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York; 2001.

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