Fortunately, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare is set to expand its coverage of amyloid PET scans for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease ...

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 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 ...

These drugs work by clearing amyloid from the brain, which doctors can see on specialized imaging called a PET brain scan. Administered through a needle placed in an arm vein, these medications ...

Not the Same. In amyloid-negative people (left) few tangles accumulate over a decade. In amyloid-positives (right), tangles grow faster in women (red) than men (blue). [Courtesy of Gillian Coughlan, ...

along with plasma p-tau217 levels and MK6420 Tau PET scans from them. Compared with p-tau217 assays, the VeraBIND assay was less specific and less sensitive at predicting a person’s amyloid status, ...

Sex differences in tau may help explain why women face higher Alzheimer's dementia risk than men. At high levels of brain ...

Samsung C&T announced Thursday that its Life Science Fund, established in collaboration with Samsung Biologics, Samsung ...