When people have Alzheimer’s disease, their brains slowly accumulate abnormal clumps of two proteins: amyloid and tau. At ...
Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated ...
Blood tests and the adoption of AI in cognitive decline screenings have opened the door to new avenues for testing cognitive ...
At the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting, held January 15-17, researchers focused on new techniques—all based on tau and ...
In related news, other scientists recently reported that phospho-tau isoforms in the CSF mirror protofibrillar forms of tau, ...
Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...
Currently, although brain Abeta accumulation can be detected by positron emission tomography(4) (amyloid PET) and cerebrospinal fluid testing(5) (CSF testing), the high cost and invasiveness of ...
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 ...
Study finds that disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s, lecanemab and donanemab, can extend independence in daily ...
Participants had a mean age of 70.8 years, and 56.9% were women. They were assessed by overnight polysomnography, amyloid PET, and analyses of plasma p-tau181, BDNF, and neurofilament light (NfL ...
Development of Prediction Model for Brain Amyloid-Beta Accumulation for Early Screening of Alzheimer's Disease MACHINE LEARNING MODEL USING ...