Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer’s disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36-month follow-up study led by Duke Medicine. The national, multicenter study confirms earlier findings suggesting that identifying silent beta-amyloid plaque build-up in the brain could help guide care and treatment decisions for patients at risk for Alzheimer’s. The findings appeared online March 11, 2014, in Molecular Psychiatry, a Nature Publishing Group journal.
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