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: Franceschi, A., Kritikos, M., Cruciata, G., Clouston, S., Vaska, P., Huang, C., Horton, M., Tang, C., Salerno, M., Deri, Y., Carr, M., Santiago, S., Pellechia, A., Gandy, S., Sano, M., Bromet, E., Lucchini, R., Luft, B. Tags: Neurology & amp; Psychiatry (Poster Session) Source Type: research
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