That is being considered as well. Thanks Not sure how to look. Know of anyone near 76001 which is Dallas/Fort Worth Texas? Thanks for the comment. Hi again, If you want to consider someone trained in the Bredesen protocol in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, you have a few options. You can use the search...

The newest issue of Alzforum has an article on the presentation of results from the open-label extension of the Lucidity trial of HMTM, a derivative of methylene blue, at the March 2024 AD/PD conference in Lisbon. Here's the article and an excerpt: TauRx Parses Subgroups to Make the Case for Methyle...

My wife was recently diagnosed with EOAL. Age 54, and height/weight lean and for the most part healthful. We were doing basic testing with a Neurologist over a few years and he leaned towards depression. Now at UTSW in which test results have confirmed. The lumbar tests resulted in high PTAU and a ...

Bruxism is characteristic of very late stage ALZ which is consistent with her being on Aricept for about 8 years now. She was deemed "un-testable" for cognitive testing when we brought her in a few years ago. I'm curious if she's had a recent MRI of her brain...Given that your mom is a 4/...

Hello - I am curious if anyone has any additional information on Lucent's p-tau 217 test? It appears to be available through a physician's order? Not direct to consumer. Please see link? https://www.lucentdiagnostics.com/about-lucentad/ Hi Sheri, I'm not directly familiar with the Lucent AD p-Tau 2...

Hi HennDJM (and all struggling with this issue!), I’m sorry for your periodontal challenges. My dear husband who was diagnosed with MCI in 2019 has suffered with repeated bouts of periodontal disease as long as I have known him (1999)! He’s had numerous invasive and expensive procedures and the pro...

I've never been in bad shape I think but I started really taking care of myself when I was in my late 40s. I changed to a mediterranean diet, started working out like an animal and lost about 50 lbs. I feel great and at my age I'm dumbfounded at the muscle I've put on. My lipids, BP, A1C, etc are a...

Great question. I could be mistaken as amyloid aggregation precedes tau accumulation, but the BRAINSCAN test largely ignores abeta and relies solely on p-Tau 217 instead along with NfL and GFAP. This test isn't meant to be used for diagnosis (as clearly stated on the website) but rather an assessme...

The new p-Tau 217 test (used in Precivity, $1,250) appears to have the strongest correlation with a PET scan and/or CSF biomarkers of AD pathology... The introductory pricing will be around 50% of the Precivity testing and will likely increase somewhat after the first month. You can sign up now to ...

Quest Diagnostics offers a blood test which: "measures A-beta 42 and A-beta 40 biomarkers (a biological marker of a molecule found in thebody that may be used in evaluating a disease state) in the blood and provides the A-beta 42/40 ratio. The ratio between these two molecular biomarkers may h...