MRI Brain Scans Find Early Parkinson’s
A new MRI approach can detect people who have early-stage Parkinson’s disease with 85 percent accuracy, according to research published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
“At the moment we have no way to predict who is at risk of Parkinson’s disease in the vast majority of cases,” says Clare Mackay of the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford Univ., one of the joint lead researchers. “We are excited that this MRI technique might prove to be a good marker for the earliest signs of Parkinson’s. The results are very promising.”
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