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 ...

Analysing cancer DNA in spinal fluid could speed up and improve the diagnosis of breast cancer which has spread to the brain and spinal cord, according to a new pilot study. The type of test, known as ...

A simple blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicts nearly 7 million Americans, could soon replace more invasive and expensive diagnostic methods such as spinal taps and brain scans.

Background. Individuals with cryptococcal antigenemia are at high risk of developing cryptococcal meningitis if untreated. The progression and timing from asymptomatic infection to cryptococcal ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s ...

Scientists are urgently seeking fluid biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia, the most common dementing illness among 40- and 50-year-olds. Two large collaborations studying genetic FTD cohorts have ...

Cognito Therapeutics Announces Presentation of New CSF Proteomic and EEG Biomarker Data for Spectris™ in Alzheimer’s Disease ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately 20 ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...