Articles Tagged With: biomarker
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Timing of Biomarker Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease
In a longitudinal multicenter, nested case-control study of cognitive normal participants from China, the time courses of key Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers were identified during the 20 years preceding clinical diagnosis of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease.
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Role of the Hypothalamus in Migraine and Cluster Headaches
The hypothalamus plays a regulatory role in both migraine and cluster headaches. However, the two headache types have distinctive clinical features, characteristic areas of resting state functional connectivity on magnetic resonance imaging, and different genetic chronobiological associations.
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Can a Blood-Based Test Serve as a Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease?
This proof-of-concept study proposes that a noninvasive assay detecting pathology-associated α-synuclein extracted from blood may reveal a reliable biomarker for Parkinson’s disease.
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Phospho-Tau217 Blood Biomarker May Help to Diagnose Early Alzheimer’s Disease
Serum phospho-tau217, a biomarker of tau protein that can be detected in the blood, is increased in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and may have clinical utility for the early detection of brain pathology.
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Fruits and Vegetables Lower the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
A multicenter, multinational prospective case-cohort study concludes that an increase in dietary consumption of fruits and vegetables is beneficial in reducing the risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 regardless of the current level of consumption.
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Plasma Phospho-Tau217 Is a Promising Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker
Validation and replication of findings in the use of the blood biomarker phospho-tau 217 for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease holds out the possibility for a new era in the early diagnosis and treatment of this debilitating illness.
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Lost Sleep, Lost Memories
Investigators discovered higher levels of Alzheimer’s biomarker in young men who lost even one night of sleep.