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 ...

A study published in Brain Communications revealed new insights into early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have made a breakthrough in identifying a way for ... protein in the brain a decade in advance of them appearing prominently in brain scans as a cause ...

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 ...

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 ...