Computer diagnoses Alzheimer’s more accurately than blood tests
A Wellcome Trust study published in the journal Brain reports that a computer algorithm designed to diagnose Alzheimer’s from brain scans proved more accurate than the current standard — blood tests, family interviews, and clinicians looking at the brain scan themselves. The experiments were conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuro-imaging at University College London.
Automated bio-imaging correctly diagnosed Alzheimer’s in 96% cases compared with 85% for standard testing.
The method involves teaching a standard computer the difference between brain scans from patients with proven Alzheimer’s disease (a condition caused by the build-up of plaques and tangles of tissue in the brain) and people with no signs of the disease at all.
The two conditions can be distinguished with a high degree of accuracy on a single clinical MRI scan without the need for time consuming follow-up tests, say the scientists.
They think the technique will be particularly useful for reassuring elderly people with mild memory loss that they are not suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
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http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc%5Fwtx043343.html
Elaine Warburton www.geneticsandhealth.com
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2 opinions for Computer diagnoses Alzheimer’s more accurately than blood tests
Lisa Marie
Feb 26, 2008 at 3:08 pm
that is a good news for those who has a a Alzheimer’s disease.
Jonathan Hughes
May 22, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Alzheimer’s is a use disuse principle the percentage of the brain activity that can’t reach the body throught the nervious system will be proportional to the bodies’ posture and fungtion !This is the best drug free medically scientific advice I can give .put it into practice and you will see what I mean!
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Anyone and I mean anyone who has a condition that has not responded to conventional care should go to an upper cervical specific doctor. “Specific” means the doctor practices ONLY upper-cervical treatment without twisting the neck
. He or she will not do anything else to you. If anyone suggests other types of chiropractic treatment, like full spine chiropractors and mixers DON’T GO THERE!
Some good upper-cervical methods are Duff method, Atlas Orthogonal, NUCCA, light toggle recoil, Grostic or any other technique that pays close attention to the sagittal atlantoaxial region. The doctor should use x rays — base posterior, a-p open mouth, lateral, nasium, and some times vertex. Objective instrumentation including infrared scanning must be used before and after adjustment. No twisting in adjustment. And don’t let anyone practice full spine chiropractic on you!
Take milk thistle it has a substance called silymarin. It can help to detoxify the liver of the drugs you’ve been taking, and help the body to regenerate.
Please keep in touch.
Jonathan Hughes
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