A number of research facilities are looking for predictive tests for Alzheimer's Disease, with promising results.
Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease is an important aspect of helping those with Alzheimer's to have a high quality of life, and medical researchers who are looking for tests that aid in early diagnosis of this neurological disease may have found a blood test that does just that, according to a study published in, Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring" in June.
Researchers at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine are developing a blood test – now in clinical trials- that has had a nearly 100 percent rate of accuracy when it comes to detecting Alzheimer's Disease in patients thus far.
The National Institute on Aging has developed a blood test that detects the onset of Alzheimer's
The Salk Institute is also looking into how a protein called Neuregulin-1 affects individuals with Alzheimer's – they have discovered that this specific protein can lower the number of molecules that create the amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer's patients' brains. In the mice treated with the protein in the trial, the amount of plaque in the brain was much lower than of the mice in the control group.