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Article: Imaging Technique Could Spot Progressive Atrophy In Patients With Preclinical AD.(Alzheimer's disease)
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
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- August 18, 2001
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2001 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
A report in the July 19, 2001, issue of the Lancet outlines an imaging technique that could identify the early progression of Alzheimer disease before the onset of clinical symptoms.
The early diagnosis and monitoring of the progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) is important for the development of therapeutic strategies aimed at disease prevention. To detect the earliest structural brain changes, individuals need to be studied before symptom onset.
Martin Rossor and colleagues from the National Hospital, London, U.K., used an imaging technique called voxel-compression mapping to localize progressive ...