Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...

Now, several publications and presentations at the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference have demonstrated that blood tests measuring amyloid and tau proteins have become much more ...

Alzheimer’s disease could be diagnosed from a single MRI brain scan, according to a new study by Imperial College London. Using machine learning technology, researchers were able to examine ...

Scientists have identified a biomarker for Alzheimer's that may help doctors spot the early signs of protein buildup in the ...

These various tests are at different stages of validation – assuring they’re accurate across many different populations. And, for each protein, there are several different met ...

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. While there have been immense breakthroughs in medicine, from the discovery of insulin in 1922 to the invention of the ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its ...

This test can help detect the tangled proteins years in advance of them appearing prominently in brain scans – as much as up to a decade. That's heartening because Alzheimer's disease not only ...

A study reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that vascular ...

Alzheimer’s disease, a type of dementia that profoundly ... which can collect between neurons and block cell functions in the brain. A PET scan is a medical imaging technique that uses a small ...

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have found that some people diagnosed with a serious type of dementia may actually have a ...

Scientists know that a build-up of specific proteins in the brain is associated with Alzheimer’s disease. However, by the time these proteins have become visible in brain scans, disease ...