Intervening early in Alzheimer’s disease promotes better outcomes for patient care and public health, but sleuthing out the first signals of this disease in the brain has been difficult. Now, there’s new hope: a research team led by Barbara Bendlin, PhD, associate professor, Geriatrics and Gerontology, has capitalized on a new brain imaging method that detects structural changes in white matter, specifically in myelin.
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