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A study shows that MRIs can be key in the fight when it comes to early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
MRIs are scans of the brain, that are often used following traumatic injury to check the brain for injury.
In experiments on rabits, researchers were able to see Alzheimer’s disease plaque on their brains by the use of MRIs or magnetic resonance imaging, a fact that may hold hope for human patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
They fed the rabits high cholesterol diets for 2 years in order for dangerous plaque to build up on their brains.
“Although some of the technology used to generate these images was designed specifically for rabbits, this preliminary discovery hints at the promise of using clinical MRI scanners to visualize plaques in people with Alzheimer’s,” John Ronald of Ontario’s Robarts Research Institute said in a statement.
Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disease that has no cure. It is eventually fatal.
The study was released at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Chicago on Sunday.
