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1. Florbetapir: Alzheimer’s Imaging Inches Into Practice

   ... plaque. Beta amyloid is believed to be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease and is thought to begin accumulating in the brain a decade or more ... scan the patient does not have the proteins associated with Alzheimer’s, and physicians need to look for another type of dementia to ...

   mrivera - 2013-03-04 13:07

2. Redefining Parkinson’s research: Study takes stock of challenges, suggests new criteria

   ... climate of Parkinson’s research is much like it was for Alzheimer’s disease before there was a clear way forward toward pathological detection. ...

   kmahdoubi - 2013-05-08 14:20

3. Vast Majority of Americans Would Want to Know if They Have a Serious Illness or Injury, Even If There Is No Cure, New Survey Shows

   ... (78 percent) would want to have a test done to diagnose a disease, even if there is no treatment or cure available.  This survey was ... well as clinical diagnostic tools to help diagnose cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, coronary disease and other serious illnesses, have come ...

   egodt - 2013-05-07 16:55

4. Phase III Alzheimer’s treatment study misses the mark

   ... functional abilities in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease after 18 months of treatment. Given the findings, Baxter said it will ...

   lfratt - 2013-05-07 15:06

5. Not So Fast: Signs of Lewy body dementia not seen by dopamine SPECT

   ... a possible means of evaluating classic symptoms of the disease—hallucinations, cognitive fluctuations, dementia and ... clinically and neuropathologically show overlap with both Alzheimer disease patients and idiopathic PD patients, we were interested in ... suggest that DLB in its early stages is more similar to Alzheimer disease with cortical dysfunction than to striatal dysfunction ...

   kmahdoubi - 2013-05-07 09:09

6. SNMMI Treks North to Vancouver

   ... use criteria for amyloid PET, reviews clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and approval for amyloid PET and shares requirements for imaging ...

   mrivera - 2013-05-02 13:28

7. Alternative neural networks help compensate for Alzheimer's

   ... While verbal memory decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease has been well documented, a similarly relevant area of research has ...

   kmahdoubi - 2013-05-01 08:46

8. GE Healthcare and Eisai Inc. to Partner on Alzheimer’s Disease Research

   ... enzyme) inhibitor for the potential treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The accumulation of beta amyloid in the brain is believed to play ...

   egodt - 2013-04-29 14:21

9. Education linked w/ cognitive reserve in early-stage Alzheimer’s patients

   ... are exploring the possibilities of cognitive reserve in Alzheimer’s patients with higher education levels. Specific neural networks ... compensate for neural damage in the beginning stages of the disease, according to research published in the June issue of The Journal of ...

   kmahdoubi - 2013-04-23 08:22

10. Dual-target PET teases apart dementia class

    ... impairment as it progresses into three subtypes of dementia: Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia (LBD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The ...

    kmahdoubi - 2013-04-23 08:17

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