Dr. Richard G. Stefanacci explains why the FDA's recent clearance of a diagnostic blood test for Alzheimer's deserves ...

Women face a heightened risk of developing dementia over ... to your thinking. And PET scan or Positron Emission Tomography is used really to detect the activity of your brain indicated by how ...

There's no single test to diagnose dementia; it’s a process ... decide if an imaging study (like a PET scan) could detect amyloid plaques in your brain. Beta-amyloid can clump together ...

The test has a complicated name: The Lumipulse G pTau217/ß-Amyloid 1-42 Plasma Ratio. But the goal of the test, created by ...

Compounding this already sobering stat is the fact that average wait times for diagnosis and treatment of dementia range from ...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET ... [amyloid beta] PET scan status disclosure,” the authors wrote in their paper, published Wednesday in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

The test may make it easier to identify whether people with memory and thinking problems have Alzheimer’s or not.

The FDA has cleared the first-ever blood test for early Alzheimer's detection, which the agency says reduces the need for ...

Can my doctor test me for dementia? Not exactly ... aging and what isn’t,” notes Baker. Brain scan. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan can look for a buildup of beta- amyloid proteins ...

U.S. health officials have endorsed the first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s. The test would help identify ...

Now the WashU and Lund team has figured out a way to map blood levels of MTBR-tau243 to brain-based tau tangles and therefore use it to identify the stage of the disease's progression in any one ...

Some good exercises for the brain include: Walking Running Cycling Swimming People who walk about 9,800 steps — around five miles — a day are 51% less likely to develop dementia than those who ...