New possibility of studying how Alzheimer's disease affects the brain at different ages
Symptoms vary in cases of Alzheimer's disease and often relate to the phase of life in which the disease first occurs. People who become ill before the age of 65 often suffer early on from diminished spatial perception and impaired orientation . Elderly patients more often suffer the symptoms traditionally associated with the disease: above all, memory impairment. "Now we have a tool which helps us to identify and detect various sub-groups of Alzheimer's disease. This facilitates the development of drugs and treatments adapted to various forms of Alzheimer's," explains Michael Schöll, researcher at Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. Diagnostics could also be facilitated, mainly among younger patients in whom it is particularly difficult to arrive at a correct diagnosis. Confident in approval for clinical use The findings, published in the journal Brain , are based on studies of around 60 Alzheimer's patients at Skåne University Hospita...