Alzheimer’s disease has four distinct subtypes

Scientists have found that Alzheimer’s disease has four distinct subtypes based on brain scan images. The researchers’ findings could help develop more effective treatments for this disease by carefully targeted clinical trials by separating patients by subtype. Dennis Dickson, a neuropathologist at the Mayo Clinic, said, “This is an important paper that moves the field forward and suggests that we should not think of Alzheimer’s disease as one disease that starts in a given location and progresses in a stereotypic fashion.” Read the article here…

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