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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...