COVID-19 Prompts Choroid Plexus to Ring Alarm Bell alzforum.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alzforum.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
27 May 2021
Plasma phospho-tau 181 and p-tau 217 can distinguish people with Alzheimer’s disease from controls most, but not all, of the time. To increase diagnostic accuracy, researchers are creating algorithms combining p-tau with other fluid biomarker and diagnostic data. In the May 24 Nature Medicine, researchers led by Oskar Hansson and Sebastian Palmqvist, both at Lund University, Sweden, reported just such an algorithm to predict AD. They report that among people with a subjective memory complaint, plasma p-tau, APOE genotype, executive function, and memory scores together predicted AD onset within two to six years with 90 percent accuracy. In the same cohort, clinicians were about 72 percent accurate. Alzforum first reported on the algorithm at this year’s International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases (Apr 2021 conference news).
More Data on Herpes and Alzheimer s Disease alzforum.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alzforum.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
16 Apr 2021
It’s as if herpes were trying to push corona out of the limelight it keeps popping up in the news. At the virtual AD/PD 2021 conference,
Morgane Linard, University of Bordeaux, France, linked brain-tissue changes and a higher Alzheimer’s disease incidence to herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection, with ApoE4 carriers doing worse. Also at the meeting,
Oliver Goldhardt, Technical University of Munich, tied AD biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid to herpes infection. Both teams measured herpes infection by detecting anti-HSV immunoglobulin G (IgG) in participants’ blood or CSF.
Herpes infection bumped AD risk 2.7-fold in ApoE4 carriers.
Does Synchronizing Brain Waves Bring Harmony? alzforum.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alzforum.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.