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by tremon 247 days ago
I thought amyloid-β buildup is usually determined at autopsy? That's not really the kind of diagnostic medicine I'm looking forward to. Can it also be determined via brain biopsy?
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You can do PET imaging for it--there are a bunch of 18F-based tracers that work reasonably well. It also inversely correlates with Abeta levels in the CSF. Ne

Neither of those are particularly easy procedures, but certainly better than a biopsy (and autopsy!)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3264790/