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Researchers from McGill University in Canada reveal how they used machine-learning techniques and beta-amyloid imaging to predict Alzheimer’s development in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) up to 2 years before symptoms arose.
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What if Alzheimer’s could be diagnosed through a routine visit to the opticians? Researchers may have brought us a step closer to such a feat, after developing an optical imaging system that can detect a hallmark of the disease.
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Scientists are making progress in the development of better tests to tell who has Alzheimer’s
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From a reader of the Washington Post:
As an Alzheimer’s advocate for 15 years, I speak from personal experience about the value of leveraging diagnostic tools when confronted with Alzheimer’s disease. A study shared at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London found that underuse of imaging scans drives additional health-care costs.
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One in three Americans doesn’t get enough sleep, and 45% of the world’s population doesn’t, either. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls that a “public health problem,” because disrupted sleep is associated with a higher risk of conditions including diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular disease. See what CNN has to tell us in the link for today.
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Paul Aisen, senior author of the study and director of the USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) at the Keck School of Medicine. “This study is a significant step toward the idea that elevated amyloid levels are an early stage of Alzheimer’s, an appropriate stage for anti-amyloid therapy.”
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