New brain scan better detects earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease in healthy people

Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 00:42 in Health & Medicine

A new type of brain scan, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), appears to be better at detecting whether a person with memory loss might have brain changes of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the January 6, 2010, online issue of Neurology(R), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology...

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