A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease
In 2015 I volunteered for a longitudinal study of a then new tau-PET scan using the radioactive tracer [18F]-AV1451. It has since been approved for commercial use under the name Flortaucipir. Along with the tau...
Joy Milne is a 72-year-old retired nurse from Perth, Scotland, who has had an extraordinarily sensitive sense of smell, called hyperosmia, all of her life. In some ways it has been a curse. She...
As I have discussed in previous posts, many drugs designed to remove beta-amyloid from the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease have been designed and tested over the last twenty-plus years. Most of these...
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