The National Institute on Aging is releasing new national guidelines to help catch signs of Alzheimer’s. Dr. Creighton Phelps, director of the Alzheimer’s Disese Centers Program at the National Institute of Aging explains what this means for patients and their doctors. There are changes that occur in the brain that can be seen with imaging and measuring spinal fluid that are like those in people with Alzheimer’s and could potentially help the clinicians know the best way to proceed. This also raises the question: Would you want to know if you were likely to get Alzheimer’s?
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