Hidden brain signal reveals Alzheimer’s years before symptoms

TSPO, a key biomarker of brain inflammation, could help detect Alzheimer's disease years before memory loss and other symptoms set in - potentially leading to advances in how the disease is diagnosed and treated, according to a study published in Acta Neuropathologica. "This is the first study to really examine how early this biomarker increases and where it begins rising in the brain," said Tomás R. Guilarte, lead researcher and dean of FIU's Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. "If we can use this information to help...