Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have imaged tau protein in the brains of living patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The amount and spread of tau proved a predictor of future memory loss. Brain imaging for measuring tau can be useful both for improving diagnosis and for developing more effective treatments, say the researchers. The study is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common dementia disease, can be caused by accumulations of proteins in the brain that damage the neurons and cause memory loss. However, the disease tends to take an individual course, which makes it hard to predict what symptoms a patient will…
