There is no known cure for Alzheimer’s, but certain medications can help slow the cognitive decline that’s characteristic of the disease. Cognitive assessments, brain scans and blood tests are ...

For 10 years, a woman with Down syndrome defied what many scientists believed to be an inevitability. Despite carrying the ...

These problematic shapes in your brain can point to a possible Alzheimer's diagnosis ... or a brain tumor: CT scan: Your doctor will take a series of X-rays and put them together to make a ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its ...

Now, several publications and presentations at the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference have demonstrated that blood tests measuring amyloid and tau proteins have become much more ...

scan following administration of compounds (amyloid or tau “tracers”) that bind one of the proteins that accumulates in the Alzheimer’s diseased brain. The amyloid scans came first ...

Scientists know that a build-up of specific proteins in the brain is associated with Alzheimer’s disease. However, by the time these proteins have become visible in brain scans, disease ...

Alzheimer’s disease ... which can collect between neurons and block cell functions in the brain. A PET scan is a medical imaging technique that uses a small amount of a radioactive substance ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Those who treat patients with Alzheimer’s say that the tests need only a bit ...