{"id":127804,"date":"2021-09-18T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/time-until-dementia-symptoms-appear-can-be-estimated-via-brain-scan"},"modified":"2021-09-18T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:22:19","slug":"time-until-dementia-symptoms-appear-can-be-estimated-via-brain-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/time-until-dementia-symptoms-appear-can-be-estimated-via-brain-scan","title":{"rendered":"Time Until Dementia Symptoms Appear Can Be Estimated via Brain Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-until-dementia-symptoms-appear-can-be-estimated-via-brain-scan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may hit the tipping point when you\u2019re 50; it may happen when you\u2019re 80; it may never happen,\u201d Schindler said. \u201cBut once you pass the tipping point, you\u2019re going to accumulate high levels of amyloid that are likely to cause dementia. If we know how much amyloid someone has right now, we can calculate how long ago they hit the tipping point and estimate how much longer it will be until they are likely to develop symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>A new algorithm uses neuroimaging data of amyloid levels in the brain and takes into account a person\u2019s age to determine when a person with genetic Alzheimer\u2019s risk factors, and with no signs of cognitive decline, will develop the disease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source; <\/em><\/strong><em>WUSTL<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an approach to estimating when a person who is likely to develop Alzheimer\u2019s disease, but has no cognitive symptoms, will start showing signs of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The algorithm, available online in the journal <em>Neurology<\/em>, uses data from a kind of brain scan known as amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) to gauge brain levels of the key Alzheimer\u2019s protein amyloid beta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou may hit the tipping point when you\u2019re 50; it may happen when you\u2019re 80; it may never happen,\u201d Schindler said. \u201cBut once you pass the tipping point, you\u2019re going to accumulate high levels of amyloid that are likely to cause dementia. If we know how much amyloid someone has right now, we can calculate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}