Every anti-amyloid antibody is different, hence the donanemab AUR address two unique aspects of this drug: in its Phase 3 trial, scientists used baseline tau PET scans to determine eligibility, and ...

When I co-invented the first PET (positron emission tomography) scan to visualize brain amyloid and tau—the physical evidence of Alzheimer’s disease—I did not foresee the distressing mental ...

Aducanumab was "the first approved disease-modifying treatment aimed at removing amyloid protein from the brain," says ... This means that, while plaque reduction on a PET scan is similar, the actual ...

In someone with cognitive complaints, Dr. Niotis says the most common brain scans performed are Amyloid PET scans and FDG-PET scans. "Amyloid PET scans tell us if someone has accumulated the toxic ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have received a five-year $6.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to build a portable, high-resolution ...