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Brain scans help predict Alzheimer's risk

This article was originally published in Clinica

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Brain scans of elderly patients with memory problems have helped researchers in the US to pick out those at risk of Alzheimer's disease. Using an imaging technique in which a radioactive tracer is injected and detected in the brain using a gamma camera, they have correctly predicted in 83% of cases which patients would go on to develop the disease within two or three years.

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