Neurodegeneration exploring commonalities across diseases is the summary of a workshop hosted by the institute of medicines ioms forum on neuroscience and nervous system disorders in spring 2012 to explore commonalities across neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimers disease parkinsons disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis als and frontotemporal dementia ftd participants . Neurodegeneration exploring commonalities across diseases is the summary of a workshop hosted by the institute of medicines ioms forum on neuroscience and nervous system disorders in spring 2012 to explore commonalities across neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimers disease parkinsons disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis als and frontotemporal dementia ftd participants . Neurodegeneration exploring commonalities across diseases is the summary of a workshop hosted by the institute of medicines ioms forum on neuroscience and nervous system disorders in spring 2012 to explore commonalities across neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimers disease parkinsons disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis als and frontotemporal dementia ftd. Download citation neurodegeneration exploring commonalities across diseases workshop summary neurodegeneration exploring commonalities across diseases is the summary of a workshop hosted by . In neurodegenerative disease the proteins are most commonly a amyloid tau and synuclein whereas with prion diseases the disease proteins are different pathological strains of prion proteins the term transmissible for the purpose of this workshop summary is not synonymous with infectious