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Email: bghetti@iupui.edu
Dr. Ghetti is the Director of the Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Ghetti's ongoing research involves the pathological changes and molecular mechanisms in several neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer disease, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob and the weaver mouse mutation. He is currently collaborating in laboratory studies into familial forms od dementias and prion diseases.
Publications:
De Michele G, Pocchiari M, Petraroli
R, Manfredi M, Caneve G, Coppola G, Casali C, Sacca F, Piccardo P, Salvatore
E, Berardelli A, Orio M, Barbieri F, Ghetti B, Filla A. Variable
phenotype in a P102L Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Italian family. Can J Neurol
Sci. 2003 Aug;30(3):233-6.
Ghetti B, Tagliavini F, Takao M, Bugiani O, Piccardo P. Hereditary
prion protein amyloidoses.
Clin Lab Med. 2003 Mar;23(1):65-85.
Ghetti B,
Murrell JR, Zolo P, Spillantini MG, Goedert M. Progress in hereditary tauopathies:
a mutation in the Tau gene (G389R) causes a Pick disease-like syndrome.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2000;920:52-62.