Advanced Brain Imaging Technology Reveals Early Diagnostic Clues For Alzheimer’s Disease

<p>Main Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics
Article Date: 04 May 2012 1:00 PDT</p>

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<p>Alzheimers illness (AD) is a vital neurodegenerative commotion that affects millions of people worldwide. New and accurate techniques for early diagnosis are critical. Pravat K. Mandal, PhD, and his colleagues have grown a totally non-invasive mind imaging technique to magnitude specific mind chemical changes. This provides a signature of a early stages of AD from a hippocampal segment of a brain. Their work is reported in the Journal of Alzheimers Disease.</p>

<p>Alzheimers illness has turn a wordless tsunami in a aging population, says Dr. Mandal, who is compared with a National Brain Research Center, Gurgaon, India, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medi...