A Possible New Way to Diagnose AD

Since we had a student lecture on AD I thought this was kind of cool how they are developing better methods to diagnose the problems since for most of the neurological disorders definitive diagnosis was hard to come by if it was even able to be done.

In this article it discusses that there is a possible new radiopharmaceutical that binds to the AD amyloid plaques. It even discuses that it maybe able to track the progression of the disease over time. There are several subject ranges form 44 to 80 years in age. The article is very well written as a formal lab write up that can be useful to us all in the future and had some interesting results. There were only two cases of minor side effects in patients but are thought to be cause by other issue. It also discusses how this method could also be a more cost effective way in the future. This article also includes many good images from the testing that help understand their results.

http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/47/5/748