Case study on Alzheimer's disease looks at progression before and after death

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 10:01 in Health & Medicine

A case study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the pathological course of Alzheimer's disease. The brain of the first Alzheimer's patient to display amyloids demonstrable with a PET scanner has been studied both during progression of the disease and after death.

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