Medications like donanemab (Kisunla) and lecanemab (Leqembi) target amyloid plaques that build up in the brain due to ...

Despite a lot of advancements in our understanding of dementia over the past few decades, doctors still don’t have a reliable ...

The results confirmed what her friends and family had quietly feared: Ellen was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, a devastating form of dementia ... an amyloid-β PET scan at Mayo Clinic ...

Medicare may cover positron emission tomography (PET) scans. If you have a PET scan as an inpatient, Part A will typically cover costs. If you are an outpatient, Part B will cover eligible expenses.

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 ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, have shown that specific blood biomarkers can predict development of dementia up to 10 years before symptoms appear. But their primary value ...

A phase I/II trial showed that transplanting dopaminergic progenitors derived from induced pluripotent stem cells was safe in ...

"Treatments for Alzheimer's and some other forms of dementia ... PET scanning, are expensive and not widely available. "In our study, we looked at the retina which is directly connected to the ...