PET scans can detect amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, which are often early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. But they’re not enough on their own to make a diagnosis.

Technology: Screening can predict which patients' memory problems will develop into the disease. PET Scans Highly Reliable in Detecting Alzheimer's - Los Angeles Times ...

A PET scan would normally only be ordered when there is concern that the person with dementia might have some other cause of dementia that would affect the way their condition is managed. It’s not ...

A scan that can detect Alzheimer’s disease before memory loss begins is now available in the UAE for the first time. The amyloid PET scan, recently launched at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, is a ...

Brain scans can improve diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease, a new study claims. Researchers assessed the use of PET scans to identify Alzheimer's-related amyloid plaques in the brain ...

A PET scan that measures uptake of sugar in the brain significantly improves the accuracy of diagnosing a type of dementia often mistaken for Alzheimer's disease, a new study has found. The scan ...

If amyloid-detecting scans are needed, we recommend FDG-PET scanning, which is more useful for detecting signs of Alzheimer’s disease as well signs of other major diseases, like cancer ...

PET scans to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease will be available someday soon, according to accumulating research showing the scans can accurately diagnose the disease. In two studies published ...

PET scans can identify amyloid plaque, a telltale sign of Alzheimer's disease. Evan Vucci/AP O ne morning in 2012, my wife Geri looked in the mirror and failed to recognize her own face .

Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated 6.7 million U.S. adults at least 65 years old, according to the ...

In those nations, MAID is available to a wider universe of pained people, not just those with fewer than six months to live.

PET scans of patients with early Alzheimer’s disease showed that binding of a marker of tau protein correlated to regions of atrophy in the brain (colored areas). [R. La Joie et al., Science ...