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<\/a><\/p>\nBy Chris Berry<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Metabolic Cerebral Imaging in Incipient Dementia study <\/a>is an ongoing nationwide clinical study sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services <\/a>(CMS). Data revealed that patients with doctors who gleaned information from a brain PET scan fared better over a two-year-period than those whose doctors were randomized to not have access to the scan information.<\/p>\n (Related:\u00a0Muskegon County’s Alternative Court for U.S. Combat Veterans<\/a>)<\/p>\n “The patients whose doctors were made aware of the Alzheimer’s Disease<\/strong> metabolic pattern in their brains received Alzheimer’s<\/strong> therapies sooner, and did better than patients whose doctors did not have the benefit of that information,” said study principal investigator Daniel Silverman, a UCLA professor of molecular and medical pharmacology. “During the subsequent two years after their PET scans, these patients had superior executive function, better memory abilities and greater preservation of overall cognitive function, providing the first direct evidence that patients whose early Alzheimer’s disease is revealed (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Chris Berry The\u00a0Metabolic Cerebral Imaging in Incipient Dementia study is an ongoing nationwide clinical study sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Data revealed that patients with doctors who gleaned information from a brain PET scan…<\/span><\/p>\n