In someone with cognitive complaints, Dr. Niotis says the most common brain scans performed are Amyloid PET scans and FDG-PET scans. "Amyloid PET scans tell us if someone has accumulated the toxic ...

The results showed that patients with amyloid values of over 7.1 in their CSF had PET scans that mostly did not pick up anything abnormal—meaning they tested negative for Alzheimer's.

In this video Thomas Wisniewski, MD, director of NYU Langone’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, discusses recent advancements in Alzheimer's disease care.

For the first time, scientists say, they have evidence that using a biologic drug to remove sticky beta amyloid plaques from ...

New Diagnostic Tools: PET scans have significantly improved early detection by allowing doctors to visualize amyloid buildup in the brain. Now, blood biomarker tests are being developed.

PET/CT, the first pan-amyloid diagnostic imaging agent, demonstrated 100% sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis ...

they were able to remove more amyloid from the brain. But other biomarker data is less clear. PET imaging scans, for example, didn’t show much of a difference in the amounts of tau protein in ...