Search Tag: Alzheimer's Disease

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Pet-imaging-tool-measures-synaptic-loss-in-alzheimer-s-disease

2018 25 Jul

Research on Alzheimer's disease is slowed down by the fact that most studies on the disease's effects on the brain are done postmortem. Now, there is a new noninvasive method for measuring a patient's synaptic loss, a critical component of the disease, which has the potential to accelerate research for new Alzheimer's treatments, according to a...Read more

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Ai-based-neuroimaging-approach-helps-predict-alzheimer-s-disease

2017 22 Dec

Machine learning techniques such as support vector machine (SVM) have been applied recently in order to accurately classify individuals with neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) based on neuroimaging data. However, the multivariate nature of the SVM approach often precludes the identification of the brain regions that contribute...Read more

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Spect-imaging-helps-distinguish-depression-from-dementia

2017 20 Feb

Overlapping symptoms make it difficult for clinicians to distinguish between depression and a cognitive disorder (CD) such as Alzheimer's disease. Now a new study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease shows that single photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT, could distinguish depression from CDs with 86 percent accuracy. In addition, brain SPECT...Read more

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Noninvasive-ultrasound-technology-could-treat-alzheimer-s-disease

2015 15 Mar

Researchers at the University of Queensland (Australia) have found that noninvasive ultrasound technology can be used to treat Alzheimer's disease and restore memory. In a report published in the journal Science Translational Medicine , the researchers say the innovative drug-free approach breaks apart the neurotoxic amyloid plaques that result in...Read more