New test could detect Alzheimer’s sign a decade before it shows up on brain scans
Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...
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A Man Fated to Get Alzheimer's Avoided It For Decades. But How?
In an exceptionally rare case, a patient with a high genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's appears to have avoided his ...
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New Test Spots Alzheimer's Biomarkers a Decade Before Symptoms Begin
Researchers have developed a test that spots early signs of Alzheimer's disease. Rather than looking for amyloid-beta plaques ...
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Should You Get This Test to Determine Your Alzheimer’s Risk? Scientists Found a New Biomarker.
The study was focused on analyzing tau, a protein in the brain that plays a key role in Alzheimer's. In people with the neurological disease, tau proteins undergo chemical changes, forming tangled ...
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P-tau 217 detects Alzheimer’s pathology in neurodegenerative syndromes
Phosphorylated tau 217 better detected Alzheimer’s disease pathology across a range of neurodegenerative syndromes compared ...
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New genetic mutation linked to Alzheimer's risk
Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...