Now, a new study suggests that it may be possible to catch Alzheimer’s early with a single brain scan. Even though Alzheimer’s disease can’t be cured, early detection can help patients get ...

Neuroscientists have taken a major step toward detecting Alzheimer’s disease in its earliest stages—long before memory loss ...

It’s a groundbreaking step forward, but these scans are also showing that the disease develops differently in Black patients.

A PET scan of the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease. Image by National Institute on Aging. Using a common type of brain scan, researchers programmed a machine-learning algorithm to diagnose ...

Alzheimer’s disease has always been difficult to diagnose — the only way to identify it definitively is by autopsying the brain after death — but scientists may now have an easier way to ...

Brain Scans Further Link Alzheimer's Disease to Tau Proteins. Published May 11, 2016 at 5:22 PM EDT Updated Jun 12, 2016 at 12:15 PM EDT. New research finds that medical imaging that captures tau ...

Juli Engel was delighted when a neurologist recommended a PET scan to determine whether amyloid — the protein clumps associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease — was ...

The team used a special type of brain scan called tau PET, which tracks a protein known as tau that builds up in the brain ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and a progressive neurodegenerative disease that destroys brain cells over time. A new study shows how artificial intelligence (AI ...

This brain activity -- or lack of it -- is what matters in Alzheimer's disease, adds Foster, who directs the Cognitive Disorders Clinic at the U-M Geriatrics Center and is a professor in the U-M ...

There is no known cure for Alzheimer’s, but certain medications can help slow the cognitive decline that’s characteristic of the disease. Cognitive assessments, brain scans and blood tests are ...

For the first time, scientists have used brain scans to track the development of Alzheimer's disease in adults with no symptoms. The new technique may lead to early detection and treatment of the ...