Is it Alzheimer's disease or another dementia? Marker may give more accurate diagnosis
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
New research finds a marker used to detect plaque in the brain may help doctors make a more accurate diagnosis between two common types of dementia -- Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. The study is published in the Nov. 30, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.