New Diagnostic Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease Include PET Imaging

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An international group of Alzheimer's disease (AD) experts have proposed new criteria for the research diagnosis of the condition; they argue the existing criteria are out of date due to unprecedented growth of scientific knowledge in the field. Bruno Dubois and co-authors propose updated criteria that aim to identify, by the presence of memory impairment and abnormal biomarkers, the full spectrum of the disease at its earlier stages, achieved by structural neuroimaging with MRI, molecular neuroimaging with PET, and cerebrospinal fluid analysis for amyloid ? or tau proteins. The proposal is put forward in a Position Paper published early online and in the August edition of The Lancet Neurology .

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