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Brain Imaging in Normal Aging and in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Imaging the Alzheimer’s brain as well as the brain of other patients with neurodegenerative diseases is a non-invasive method with the potentials to describe the progression of disease, to understand mechanisms of disease and to evaluate the efficacy of proposed therapies. Below the various methods of imaging are discussed from the viewpoints of how they work and how they have been used or could be used in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A concise synopsis is given at the end of this chapter for the student and researcher interested in the main conclusions of the 1990’s. More details of the methodologies can be found in a recent chapter (Budinger, 1996) devoted to the study of applications of neuroimaging in AD. This publication is a condensed version of this chapter with new information on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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  1. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Center for Functional Imaging, University of California, 1 Cyclotron Rd., mail stop 55-121, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    T. F. Budinger M.D., Ph. D.

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    Paola S. Timiras

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Budinger, T.F. (1999). Brain Imaging in Normal Aging and in Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Sternberg, H., Timiras, P.S. (eds) Studies of Aging. Springer Lab Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59916-3_14

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