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New Technique Images Alzheimer Onset

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 -- UCLA scientists have created the first technique to image the earliest evidence of Alzheimer's disease in the living brain -- before the disorder begins attacking brain cells. Reported in the January issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the technique will allow doctors to monitor the disease as it unfolds, speeding diagnosis, intervention and new therapies for the disorder, which afflicts 10 percent of people over 65. UCLA researchers combined a new chemical marker called FDDNP with positron emission tomography (PET) to see for the first time the...Read full article

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