New Technique Helps Distinguish Alzheimers From Other Types of Dementia
March 31, 2008, New York The use of a brain imaging technique that measures sugar metabolism within a critical area of the brain could play an important role in the early diagnosis of Alzheimers disease and other dementias.
According to Dr. Lisa Mosconi and her colleague Mony De Leon, both of New York Universitys Center for Brain Health, the imaging technique has 94% accuracy in distinguishing Alzheimer’s disease from other dementias. It was also able to identify brain patterns associated with very early cognitive decline.
Because the incidence of (Alzheimer’s and related disorders) is expected to increase dramatically as the baby boomer generation ages, accurate diagnosis is extremely important, particularly at the early and mild stages of dementia when lifestyle changes and therapeutic interventions would be most effective, Mosconi says.
Mosconi and De Leon developed the brain scan-based computer program after identifying key changes early in the course of Alzheimer’s disease in the part of the brain known as the hippocampus. They discovered that the...
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