title: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Treating Alzheimer's Disease in Primary Care.
abstract: This Academic Highlights section of The Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry presents a report from "Global Challenges in Alzheimer's Disease: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies," a satellite symposium of the Eleventh Annual International Congress of the International Psychogeriatric Association held August 20, 2003, in Chicago, Ill. The symposium and this Academic Highlights were sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from Forest Laboratories, Inc. The chair was George T. Grossberg, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis University Health Science Center and Wohl Clinic, St. Louis, Mo. The other faculty members were Jody Corey-Bloom, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego and Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, La Jolla, Calif.; Gary W. Small, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles; and Pierre N. Tariot, M.D., Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Neurology and the Center for Aging and Developmental Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center and Monroe Community Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.