The specialist will ask you to complete tests similar to those you have already done at your GP surgery. The specialist will see how you answer different types of questions, for example: using your ...

This typically involves brain imaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT). A neurologic ... clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's. A brain scan with positron emission ...

Also, like a CT scan, an MRI may also show brain changes that are linked to Alzheimer’s disease. A PET or “positron emission tomography” machine uses radioactive tracers to make images of ...

For 10 years, a woman with Down syndrome defied what many scientists believed to be an inevitability. Despite carrying the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease—amyloid beta plaques and ...

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 ...

Hounsfield called this technology a CT (computerized tomography) scan, also called a CAT scan (computerized axial tomography). It was especially useful for looking at head injuries and brain ...

According to the study, another "MRI measured the cortical thickness of brain regions that are affected by Alzheimer's disease. The scan "was used to examine disease pathology," with a focus on ...

Researchers have detailed the precise mechanism through which the inflammatory signaling molecule IL-12 contributes to Alzheimer's disease. Microglia, the brain's immune cells, usually serve as ...