Now, nearly a century later, investigators are beginning to image amyloid plaques in living brains using both positron emission tomography and MRI. In this article, we review the studies that ...
of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Higher levels of visceral fat were related to increased amyloid, accounting for 77% of the effect ...
As the size of a person’s belly grows, the memory center of their brain shrinks and beta amyloid and tau may appear — all of this occurring as early as a person’s 40s and 50s, well before ...
According to the FDA, the prescription of these amyloid-targeting therapies requires intensive ARIA monitoring with repeated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans to detect and assess these ...