Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modelling neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila / David Shepherd, Amritpal Mudher, and Tracey A. Newman -- Drosophila genetics for the analysis of neurobiological disease / K.G. Moffat -- Using Drosophila models to unravel pathogenic mechanisms that underlie neurodegeneration in tauopathies / Amritpal Mudher ... [et al.] -- Modelling cell and isoform type specificity of tauopathies in Drosophila / Sofia Grammenoudi ... [et al.] -- Using a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease / Damian C. Crowther ... [et al.] -- Amyloid peptides and ion channel function in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease / Laurence A. Brown ... [et al.] -- Genetic models of Parkinson's disease: mechanisms and therapies / Alexander J. Whitworth and Leo J. Pallanck -- Modelling lysosomal storage disease in Drosophila / Sean T. Sweeney -- Drosophila melanogaster in the study of epilepsy / Nara I. Muraro and Richard A. Baines -- Hereditary spastic paraplegia genes in Drosophila : dissecting their roles in axonal degeneration and intracellular traffic / Xinnan Wang and Cahir J. O'Kane -- Triplet repeat diseases : the role of fly models in understanding disease mechanisms and designing possible therapies / Zdenek Berger.