Pinpointing who will and won’t get Alzheimer’s disease is tricky for doctors, but new research suggests it may soon get ...

As new treatments emerge, timely diagnosis helps match patients with the most appropriate care when it can have the greatest ...

CT scan: Your doctor will take a series of X-rays and put them together to make a more complete picture. MRI scan: This uses powerful magnets and radio waves to make close-up images of your brain ...

A new tool developed by researchers can estimate how fast someone is aging by analyzing a single MRI brain scan, predicting ...

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 ...

Determining the specific type of dementia early in the diagnostic process can lead to more targeted treatments and better outcomes ...

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

In patients showing cognitive decline, a new blood test for Alzheimer's is expected to make diagnosis more convenient, accessible and inexpensive than other existing tests.

Scientists are hoping that access to more than 1.6 million brain scans collected from patients across Scotland could help predict a person’s risk of dementia. A team of 20 researchers from the ...

It was much more accurate than primary care doctors using cognitive tests and CT scans. ... A colored transmission electron micrograph of the nerve cell of the brain of a patient with Alzheimer ...