Other possible causes leading to eclampsia include carrying more than one baby, and a history of diabetes, kidney disease, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. African-American women are at a higher risk of preeclampsia, as are women over age 35, teen pregnancies and first pregnancies.
MRI Can Detect Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease. the Psychiatry Advisor take: Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new, noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging probe that they say can identify the start of Alzheimerâs disease years before symptoms appear.
Future of diagnosis. Researchers are working on new diagnostic tools that may enable doctors to diagnose Alzheimer's dementia earlier in the course of the disease, when symptoms are very mild or before symptoms even appear. One such tool is a PET scan that can detect tau, the other hallmark abnormal protein in Alzheimer's dementia.