MRI And Neuropsychological Tests Best Predict Alzheimer’s Disease In Older Patients

Main Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound
Article Date: 02 Apr 2012 0:00 PDT

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Investigators from a University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, have shown that in many aged patients invasive and costly techniques, i.e. lumbar puncture and PET scan, are not useful to settle a diagnosis of Alzheimers disease. They arrived during this end after investigate of information from a Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a immeasurable collaborative investigate plan of medical centers in a USA and Canada.

The Dutch researchers divided a ADNI representation into dual halves, a younger (74 y). They showed that a CSF biomarkers (amyloid and tau), and FDG- PET, are ominous in a younger though not in a comparison patients.

In a comparison patients MRI scans and neuropsychological tests seemed to commun...