Dr. Mark S Forman MD
Neuropathologist | Neuropathology
3400 Spruce St Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Mark Forman is a Neuropsychiatrist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Forman studies, evaluates, diagnoses, and treats mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. Neuropsychiatrists are trained to treat disorders occurring in patients due to irritability, attention deficit disorder, epilepsy, and many other conditions.
Education and Training
Duke University School of Medicine 1995
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Neuropathology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism dementia complex: transgenic mice provide insights into mechanisms underlying a common tauopathy in an ethnic minority on Guam.
- Expression of the small heat-shock protein alphaB-crystallin in tauopathies with glial pathology.
- Genotype-phenotype correlations in FTDP-17: does form follow function?
- Role for Akt3/protein kinase Bgamma in attainment of normal brain size.
- Impaired glutamate transport in a mouse model of tau pathology in astrocytes.
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with motor neuron disease: a clinical and pathological spectrum.
- The MAPT H1c risk haplotype is associated with increased expression of tau and especially of 4 repeat containing transcripts.
- TDP-43 in the ubiquitin pathology of frontotemporal dementia with VCP gene mutations.
- Valosin-containing protein and the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia associated with inclusion body myopathy.
- VCP mutations causing frontotemporal lobar degeneration disrupt localization of TDP-43 and induce cell death.
- TDP-43 mediates degeneration in a novel Drosophila model of disease caused by
- Orexin 2 Receptor Antagonism is Sufficient to Promote NREM and REM Sleep from Mouse to Man.
- The BACE1 inhibitor verubecestat (MK-8931) reduces CNS β-amyloid in animal models and in Alzheimer's disease patients.
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