HEALTH - Alzheimer Diagnosis Predicted 10 Years in Advance!

Brain MRI in healthy people may reveal symptoms of Alzheimer about a decade before it s possible clinical diagnosis. 

 

 

How could Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) assist in predict Alzheimer's disease? This can be achieved by recording the contraction of parts of the brain regions associated with the disease. 

How researchers were led to this conclusion? They created a a control group by people over 70 years old, who had no signs of Alzheimer disease and monitored them for a 10-year period through regular brain magnetic examination.

Based on the examination, individuals that showed shrinkage in specific parts related to Alzheimer's disease were three times more likely to become ill than the others who did not experience a contraction. 

 According to Professor Leyla de Toledo-Morrell, from Rush University Medical Center of Chicago and participant of this scientific study, "Quantifiable data from  brain Magnetical Resonance Imaging (MRI) may provide important signs that will help to ascertain which individuals are at risk of developing dementia, due to Alzaheimer disease".

Investigation results leading to this conclusion, not only pave the way to a new method of an early diagnosis of the disease, but will also provide significant help in developing effective therapies, given that that more than 26 million people are affected by Alzheimer worldwide(!).

Translation & Editing by Christiana Vellianiti

Source: zougla.gr , rushu.edu