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General: New type of MRI-based diagnosis?

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    Anyone seen this before?
    http://www.krem.com/news/Advance-MRI-helping-with-Alzheimers-diagnosis-in-Spokane-156971765.html

    Jeff had plenty of MRIs over the course of diagnosis and clinical studies, but I've never heard of an MRI being this useful in staging, or prediction outcomes.
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      CommentAuthorNikki
    • CommentTimeJun 4th 2012 edited
     
    Tweaked my interest... found a few more articles, this one is from 2009

    http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/06/18/volume-mri-test-detects-alzheimers/6614.html
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    emily, I read this differently (there was only 1 page, right?). To me, it sounded like the volumetric MRI can predict which of the patients dx with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) will progress into AD or another form of dementia, and which will not. Most, but not all, MCI patients do. Sort of the same thing with the statement re predicting which patients will remain stable--I'm thinking it would identify other causes of whatever symptoms are present, ruling out AD and other dementias.
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    Yes, Nikki's link helped clarify for me just how these MRIs were being used.

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