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BURLINGAME, Calif., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Pharmaceutical trials for Alzheimer s have failed repeatedly, but a new study, using a fundamentally different approach, has provided the first success: using precision medicine to identify and target the drivers of Alzheimer s or pre-Alzheimer s in each patient, a team of physicians and researchers has posted exciting, positive results in medRxiv, the Yale-backed site for health sciences.
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Until now, therapeutic development for Alzheimer s disease has been almost uniformly unsuccessful, with over 400 failed clinical trials. The few successes (e.g., memantine) have not offered sustained improvement. For example, the recent claim of a positive trial for the drug candidate donanemab did not show cognitive improvement, nor even stabilization of dementia, but merely red
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A three-minute iPad test could help doctors in the UAE spot early signs of dementia, an expert from the UK said.
Dr Sina Habibi, co-founder and chief executive of Cognetivity Neurosciences, a technology company developing a cognitive testing platform, told
The National the test could help doctors to diagnose mental deterioration, Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis 15 years before patients start showing symptoms.
A rapid screen test checks the speed and accuracy of a person’s thinking by asking them to select pictures with animals from a series of images.
This test activates a lot of the brain at the same time, which gives a more accurate outcome for doctors