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Newest in this topic

  1. Excess tau PET ligand retention in elderly patients with major depressive disorder 2020-07-01
  2. Large inter- and intra-case variability of first generation tau PET ligand binding in neurodegenerative dementias 2018-05-01

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2 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2018 to 2020

Top journals

  • Acta neuropathologica communications 1
  • Molecular psychiatry 1

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  1. Excess tau PET ligand retention in elderly patients with major depressive disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2020-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Depression is one of the common psychiatric disorders in old age.

  2. Large inter- and intra-case variability of first generation tau PET ligand binding in neurodegenerative dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Imaging of pathological tau with positron emission tomography (PET) has the potential to allow early diagnosis of the dementias and monitoring of disease progression, including assessment of therapeutic interventions, in vivo.

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