Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, a group of researchers assessed if a precise blood test matches or surpasses traditional cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests in detecting ...

Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms appear, using a spinal ...

For decades, diagnosis of brain cancer has been medicine’s most difficult and hazardous challenge. Simple imaging such as MRI scans may reveal a suspicious-looking lesion, but the only sure way to ...

Despite extensive use of biomarkers in research studies, most Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses in the United States are determined by clinical examination. That may be about to change. The Food and Drug ...

Among the many difficult features of Alzheimer’s is that doctors can never really say with certainty which patients who show signs of memory loss will go on to develop the neurodegenerative disorder.