Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimers

Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with significant memory loss who are on their way to developing Alzheimer's disease.
Although there has been increasing evidence of the value of this and other tests in finding signs of Alzheimer's, the study, which will appear Tuesday in the Archives of Neurology, shows how accurate they can be. The new result is one of a number of remarkable recent findings about Alzheimer's.