A common anti-inflammatory drug reversed memory problems similar to Alzheimer’s disease in mice, suggesting inflammation makes the disease worse and that treating inflammation may lessen its effects. {read more here}

The first documented case of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in an HIV-positive patient was recently diagnosed after a PET scan found deposition of amyloid in the brain of a 71-year-old male. {read more here}

A novel PET radiotracer developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is able for the first time to reveal epigenetic activity – the process that determines whether or not genes are expressed – within the human brain. In their report published in Science Translational Medicine, a team of MGH/Martinos Center investigators reports how their radiochemical – called Martinostat – shows the expression levels of important epigenetics-regulating enzymes in the brains of healthy volunteers. {read more here}

PET imaging features strongly correlated with EGFR mutations in non–small cell lung cancer, according to study results presented at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting. {read more here}