
Opinion|Videos|July 20, 2023
Screening for Alzheimer Disease: Facilitating an Early Diagnosis for Prompt Intervention
In this episode of MEDcast, expert geriatric psychiatrists explore the urgent need for effective diagnostic methods that can detect Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage. We will discuss blood-based biomarkers and other advancements that can help screen Alzheimer’s disease non-invasively and early in the disease course.
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Episodes in this series
0:00 Introduction
1:35 Importance of early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
05:48 The pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease
09:32 Screening for Alzheimer’s disease
11:18 The role of biomarkers
13:15 Genetic testing
17:17 Ethics of genetic testing
17:54 The role of imaging
21:37 Utility and practicality of PET scans
24:00 CSF-based biomarkers
27:15 Promising blood-based biomarkers
30:48 Summary
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