Blood test for brain diseases
"If we had something as of the first month of Alzheimer's disease symptoms, it's likely that Aricept and similar medicines would have a greater effect on the progression of the disease"- Neil Cashman, researcher
Vancouver, CA - A Canadian neuroscientist claimed on Monday to have developed the world's first simple blood test to detect brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and says it may be available within two to five years.
The test, which looks for clumps of "misfolded" proteins that underlie such diseases, will enable a "definitive diagnosis" of such illnesses, which is not currently possible, researcher Neil Cashman told AFP.
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