How Is a CSF Glucose Test Done? The most common way to check the glucose in your cerebrospinal fluid is by performing a lumbar puncture, also called a spinal tap. In some cases, your doctor can also ...

As prevention trials for Alzheimer’s disease ramp up, researchers need fast and cheap ways to diagnose early, and to screen cognitively normal people. PET is expensive. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ...

For cerebrospinal fluid tests of Alzheimer’s biomarkers, the time has come to grow up. The markers have shown great promise while being studied with research use only (RUO) assays, but as large ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of the first cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) nucleic acid-based test for simultaneous detection of multiple pathogens that can cause central ...