Neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in a positron emission tomography feasibility study of Alzheimers disease in World Trade Center cognitively impaired responders.

Conclusions: These analyses identified reductions in whole brain volume in twelve responders with WTC-CI, with substantial neurodegeneration across many, though not all ROI’s, and associations evident in Aβ and tau deposition across ROIs. These results may suggest that the etiology of WTC-CI is an entorhinal focused, hippocampal-sparing type of neurodegenerative disease.
Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Tags: Neurology & amp; Psychiatry (Poster Session) Source Type: research