Can imaging help us better understand Alzheimer's related pathology?

A new tool to view Alzheimer's related pathology: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA researchers developed a new imaging method to view amyloid plaques alongside the protective coating around nerve fibers in the same brain tissue. 

They found that some fibers near plaques appeared damaged while others remained relatively preserved. 

Read the entire paper: Investigation of the myelin-amyloid interplay in Alzheimer’s disease: insights from novel dsCMA imaging in mouse and human brains