Medical Xpress August 31, 2024
Will Kwong, University of Southern California

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.

The discovery would make Alzheimer’s diagnosis faster, more accessible and cheaper. Additionally, the blood test has the potential to enable more people to begin taking Alzheimer’s medications at the disease’s earliest stages.

Soeren Mattke, a professor of economics and director of the Brain Health Observatory at the Center for Economic and Social Research in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences who studies how advances in technology affect the access to memory care, spoke on the subject.

What are the current methods to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease?

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