Scientists have identified a biomarker for Alzheimer's that may help doctors spot the early signs of protein buildup in the ...

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 misfolded pathological forms ...

Scientists and researchers are set to examine hundreds of thousands of brain scans to build a software ... A group of 20 ...

Edelmayer, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Association vice president of scientific engagement in Chicago. A fragment of an image of an elderly person’s brain scan on magnetic resonance imaging MRI film ...

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 ...

Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated ...

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have found that some people diagnosed with a serious type of dementia may actually have a ...

For Alzheimer ... brain tumors, and buildup of fluid in the brain need to be ruled out -- typically with brain imaging with ...

Receipt of at least one head/neck CT scan conferred a nearly three-fold increase in risk for childhood brain tumors. Image: Adobe Stock Children are more likely to be negatively affected by ...

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy ...

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 ...