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PROJECT
Towards early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Created in 2005, the Vaincre Alzheimer Foundation has three main missions:
- To accelerate the arrival of new treatments by funding medical research into neurocognitive diseases;
- To improve diagnosis and care by training doctors;
- To raise public awareness on ways to prevent this disease.
The Erie Foundation has supported a clinical research project led by Professor Payoux from the Toulouse Neuroimaging Center, where a team is working on developing an innovative method of early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease based on pupil dilation and brain imaging. The aim is to identify, in people with no particular symptoms symptoms whatsoever, early changes related to Alzheimer’s disease in a particular brain region mobilised in attention and memory. The aim is to identify, in people with no particular symptoms, early changes related to Alzheimer’s disease in a particular brain region mobilised in attention and memory. To diagnose the disease in its silent phase will help prevent the cognitive decline associated to Alzheimer’s.