Minos Kritikos, Ana M Franceschi, Paul Vaska, Sean A P Clouston, Chuan Huang, Michael Salerno, Yael Deri, Cheuk Tang, Alison Pellecchia, Stephanie Santiago-Michels, Mary Sano, Evelyn J Bromet, Roberto G Lucchini, Sam Gandy, Benjamin J Luft
Purpose Incidence of early onset neurocognitive dysfunction has been reported in World Trade Center (WTC) responders. Ongoing studies are investigating the underlying etiology, as we are concerned that an underlying risk of neurodegenerative dementia may be occurring because of their stressful and neurotoxic exposures to particulate matter when they responded to the search and rescue efforts on September 11, 2001. The purpose of this study is to report preliminary results from two ongoing positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) imaging studies investigating the presence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers, such as β-amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration, and compare our findings to published norms...
December 2022: World Journal of Nuclear Medicine