Detecting Alzheimer’s before it happens
10th March 2014
By Amanda Davey
A blood test that can predict with 90% certainty whether a cognitively healthy elderly person will develop dementia symptoms could soon be a reality, researchers say.
Scientists have long known that early diagnosis offers the best chance for treating the disease, but the financial and practical feasibility of such a test has eluded them until now.
Most approaches to fluid-based biomarker discovery have focused on cerebrospinal fluid tau and amyloid-B levels but the predictive value of