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Right now, doctors rely on brain scans called PET scans to find amyloid plaques or do a spinal tap to check for abnormal levels of proteins like beta-amyloid and tau.
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Allen Chang, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
More sensitive ways to detect amyloid and tau, another protein related to the disease, are possible by analyzing spinal fluid, but that requires a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap.
—Alice Park, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
But, the results of a spinal tap showed a clear problem: her cerebrospinal fluid showed a count of 694 white blood cells per microliter.
—Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
This type of narcolepsy is often confirmed by a spinal tap showing a lack of the neurotransmitter orexin.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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Allen Chang, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
More sensitive ways to detect amyloid and tau, another protein related to the disease, are possible by analyzing spinal fluid, but that requires a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap.
—Alice Park, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
But, the results of a spinal tap showed a clear problem: her cerebrospinal fluid showed a count of 694 white blood cells per microliter.
—Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
This type of narcolepsy is often confirmed by a spinal tap showing a lack of the neurotransmitter orexin.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Spinal tap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spinal%20tap. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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