Posted by admin | Posted in Treatment | Posted on 26-06-2011
Signs of the disease in the spinal fluid to determine if the amount of progress to dementia memory.
A new way to test for signs of Alzheimer disease in cerebrospinal fluid can help to more accurately identify which people with mild memory deficits will advance to full-blown dementia, researchers reported on Wednesday.
The findings, published in the Neurology journal, are part of a drive to find new ways to diagnose Alzheimer’s early, before the disease causes damage.
“Being able to identify early in the process that will develop Alzheimer’s will be crucial in the future,” said Dr. Robert Perneczky Technical University of Munich in Germany, who led the study.
“Once we have treatments that can prevent Alzheimer disease, we could start treating very early and hopefully avoid the loss of memory and thinking abilities that occur with this devastating disease,” he said.
Current evidence of cerebrospinal fluid to look for Alzheimer disease is an imbalance of two proteins: the beta-amyloid, which forms sticky plaques in the brain, and tau, which considered a marker of neuronal damage. Read the rest of this entry »
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