While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective method for measuring their cognitive function, ...

Can AI bring more order to amyloid scans? In the February 11 Alzheimer’s & Dementia, scientists led by Pierrick Bourgeat at CSIRO Australian eHealth Research Center, Brisbane, and Vincent Doré of ...

Findings showed 91.7% of patients with positive results using Lumipulse G pTau217/ß-Amyloid 1-42 Plasma Ratio test had amyloid plaques based on PET scan or CSF test results. The Food and Drug ...

Essentia Health in Duluth now has a new tool to help diagnose Alzheimer’s, and it’s the first of its kind in the Northland. The amyloid PET Scan machine helps detect signs of the plaques that build up ...

A research group has investigated how Alzheimer's disease can be diagnosed more reliably in the future. A research group at LMU University Hospital has investigated how Alzheimer's disease can be ...

Researchers develop a 96% accurate AI-powered retinal scan to distinguish between Alzheimer’s and ALS by detecting specific protein deposits.

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Gayatri Acharya, MD: Greetings. I'm Dr Gayatri Acharya, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. During today's roundtable, we'll be discussing cardiac ...

Quantification of amyloid beta neuritic plaque levels can now be used in conjunction with visual assessment in the updated label. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an updated label ...