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2. Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia

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   PET scan of the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease showing a loss of function in the temporal lobe. Alzheimer's disease (AD) can only be definitively diagnosed with autopsy findings; in the absence of autopsy, clinical diagnoses of AD are "possible" or "probable", based on other findings.

3. This Routine Scan Could One Day Detect Alzheimer’s Before ...

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   A 2023 study published in the journal Acta Neuropathologica examined tissue from the brain and retina of 86 individuals and compared samples from donors with normal cognitive function to samples ...

4. Florbetapir (18F) - Wikipedia

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   Further tests found that the scans detected plaque in patients with Alzheimer's, didn't find it in those without the diagnosis and found intermediate amounts in patients with early signs of dementia. The tests found amyloid plaque in 20% of its test patients over age 60 that had been in the normal range, but had performed worse than a control ...

5. NINCDS-ADRDA Alzheimer's Criteria - Wikipedia

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   Possible Alzheimer's disease: There is a dementia syndrome with an atypical onset, presentation or progression; and without a known etiology; but no co-morbid diseases capable of producing dementia are believed to be in the origin of it. Unlikely Alzheimer's disease: The patient presents a dementia syndrome with a sudden onset, focal neurologic ...

6. Amyloid plaques - Wikipedia

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   Some plaques occur in the brain as a result of aging, but large numbers of plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are characteristic features of Alzheimer's disease. [5] The plaques are highly variable in shape and size; in tissue sections immunostained for Aβ, they comprise a log-normal size distribution curve, with an average plaque area of 400 ...

7. Signs of Alzheimer’s were everywhere. Then his brain improved

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   Blood biomarkers of telltale signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of his patient, 55-year-old entrepreneur Simon Nicholls, had all but disappeared in a mere 14 months. “I had to ...