Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a small study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the heart may identify people who will go on to develop Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia among those at-risk for these diseases. The findings, published in the Journal of...
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PET scans may predict Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia in at-risk individuals
by Erin Bryant, National Institutes of Health Heart and brain PET scans from a study participant who developed Parkinson’s disease support a “body first” progression. The top pair of PET scans image show low 18F-dopamine-derived radioactivity in the heart (right, with 13N-ammonia PET scan on left). Later, brain scans showed a loss of dopamine-producing neurons and...
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Successful Phase 2 clinical trial for neflamapimod in mild-to-moderate Lewy body dementia
by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine EIP Pharma announced on October 6 that a phase 2 study in patients with mild-to-moderate Lewy body dementia (LBD) demonstrated an improvement in cognition as assessed by the Neuropsychological Test Battery (NTB). In the double-blind placebo-controlled study, patients receiving neflamapimod three times daily demonstrated significant...