{"id":191106,"date":"2024-06-12T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/dementia-breakthrough-brain-scans-predict-disease-up-to-9-years-early"},"modified":"2024-06-12T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T21:24:45","slug":"dementia-breakthrough-brain-scans-predict-disease-up-to-9-years-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/dementia-breakthrough-brain-scans-predict-disease-up-to-9-years-early","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Breakthrough: Brain Scans Predict Disease Up to 9 Years Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dementia-breakthrough-brain-scans-predict-disease-up-to-9-years-early2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-clue-may-signal-alzheimers-before-you-have-symptoms\">Diagnosing dementia<\/a> early gives us more time to put precautions in place and to study exactly how the condition progresses \u2013 and a new method for predicting conditions such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease is promising up to nine years of advance warning.<\/p>\n<p>The method, developed by a team from the Queen Mary University of London in the UK and Monash University in Australia, involves a neurobiological model that analyzes brain scans captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging\">functional magnetic resonance imaging<\/a>, or fMRI.<\/p>\n<p>In tests, the model was more than 80 percent accurate at predicting the development of dementia. That has huge potential in terms of early diagnosis, and it also addresses another challenge: the large number of people with dementia who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/almost-40-of-people-with-dementia-dont-seem-to-know-they-have-it\">don\u2019t get diagnosed at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosing dementia early gives us more time to put precautions in place and to study exactly how the condition progresses \u2013 and a new method for predicting conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease is promising up to nine years of advance warning. The method, developed by a team from the Queen Mary University of London in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191106","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}