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Amyloid PET scans improve outcomes in AD patients

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Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. The percentage of patients impacted was small – just 4.5%

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PET reveals ‘smoldering’ brain inflammation in patients treated for MS

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The finding suggests that PET imaging of translocator protein (TSPO) in the brain can serve as a biomarker for evaluating patients whose disease progresses despite treatment, noted lead author Tarun Singhal, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues. Image courtesy of Clinical Nuclear Medicine.

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Evidence grows for use of amyloid PET in China

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Chinese clinicians have provided evidence in a “real-world study” that shows amyloid PET imaging is effective for diagnosing and managing patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published February 8 in Alzheimer’s and Dementia. The clinical utility of amyloid PET scans has been systematically studied in many other countries.

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Researchers offer hypothesis for long COVID brain fog

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A group in France has offered an explanation for long COVID brain fog, with the concept based on a visual brain pattern they discovered on patient PET scans, according to a study published October 13 in Medical Hypotheses. “We A) PET scan of a healthy subject. (B) B) PET scan of a long COVID patient.

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Hormone therapy linked to tau accumulation in older women

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The finding could help explain why Alzheimers disease predominates in women almost twofold over men, noted lead author Gillian Coughlan, PhD, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues. The group analyzed flortaucipir (Tauvid, Avid Pharmaceuticals) PET scans acquired over a 3.5-year

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PET reveals brain pathology that may drive depression

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Early brain accumulation of amyloid plaque on PET scans is associated with emerging depressive symptoms in cognitively unimpaired older adults, according to a study published August 29 in JAMA Network Open. The mean follow-up period was 8.6 The full study is available here.

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PET Scans Reveal ‘smoldering’ Inflammation in patients with Multiple sclerosis

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The findings were published in Clinical Nuclear Medicine. The newly published study involved performing PET scans on 22 people with MS and eight healthy controls. Those being treated with low-efficacy treatments had more abnormalities on their PET scans, suggesting more microglial cell activation.

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