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alzheimers disease — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:23:00 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:20:35 +0000

Your image is certainly not a positive Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) PET scan (positive meaning indicative of amyloid accumulation in the brain).

If it were, the indicators of Beta Amyloid would be the brightest points in the images (not the darkest as captioned). The PiB tracer binds to amyloid and thus where you see the signal is where the plaques exist.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:20:00 +0000

Your image is certainly not a positive Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) PET scan (positive meaning indicative of amyloid accumulation in the brain).

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By: knb

knb — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:45:53 +0000

Alzheimer’s disease terrifies me more than anything else in the world.

By: knb

knb — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:45:00 +0000

Alzheimer’s disease terrifies me more than anything else in the world.

By: Kenneth M. Berc, MD

Kenneth M. Berc, MD — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:42:25 +0000

I think your usage of “remarkably painful” and “less excruciating” to describe possible lumbar puncture pain is unfortunate. your words serve only to mislead and frighten those who might need the procedure. In skilled hands, with the use of the same local anesthesia used by dentists, the procedure should be uncomfortable at worst. If a person walks around for hours afterwards, perhaps a headache could develop, but with lying down, that too can be prevented.

By: Kenneth M. Berc, MD

Kenneth M. Berc, MD — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:42:00 +0000

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:50:30 +0000

My great aunt suffered this disease.

Of course, she ate more and more cookies and ice cream and less and less real food as she aged, and had a vitamin B12 deficiency (couldn’t absorb from food)… and much of this was found out too late to really help her, just slow the progression.

I wonder if any beta-amyloid dissolving compound/enzyme could be inserted into the spinal-fluid stream to make it’s way to the brain (and thus bypassing that tricky blood/brain barrier).

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:50:00 +0000

My great aunt suffered this disease.

I wonder if any beta-amyloid dissolving compound/enzyme could be inserted into the spinal-fluid stream to make it’s way to the brain (and thus bypassing that tricky blood/brain barrier).

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Fri, 29 May 2009 18:31:10 +0000

[...] The Scientific Battle Against Alzheimer’s Disease | Singularity Hub – The stuff that Alois Alzheimer noticed was actually Beta Amyloid plaque, which is a protein deposit that clumps up and degenerates synapses and nerve endings in the brain. Also found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients are Tau … [...]