This New Blood Test Can Predict Alzheimer’s Disease 3.5 Years Before Clinical Diagnosis: Study
Researchers at King's College London have established a new blood-based test that can predict the risk of Alzheimer's disease up to 3.5 years prior to clinical diagnosis. Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks, and worsens learning and organising skills because it causes the brain cells to die.
The study is based on the idea that components in human blood can modulate the formation of new brain cells. This process is called neurogenesis, and occurs in an important part of the brain called hippocampus.
The hippocampus is a complex brain structure embedded deep into the temporal lobe, plays a major role in learning and memory, is vulnerable, could get damaged by a variety of st...