Can You Detect Alzheimer Desease At A Very Early Stage?

Both of my parents had Alzheimer's at the same time. I could detect it in my mother early on. She was always so smart that she could tell you the license plate of everyone she ever knew personally. She never forgot a birthday or anniversary.

We suspected mom had Alzheimer's when she started forgetting our special days. We saw somewhere a test is to have the person draw hands on the face of a clock. So we used this in a game at a baby shower to test mom without her knowing it. She could not do that.

Shortly after that she called me up and said she had to ask me something important, and made me promise to tell the truth!
Then she asked me if we were related. We had always been the closest those two people could be so this really knocked me off my feet.

My father's Alzheimer's was alcohol induced. So we were never really close and he was never really sober enough to allow us to detect his Alzheimer's at first.

Both were very hard to accept . . .but with mom we knew she had it a long time before a doctor diagnosed her.

Yes- very soon!
Our eyes are the window into the central nervous system.  A team of doctors at Harvard Medical School in Boston found a way to detect those dangerous Amyloid-beta proteins at a very early stage already  in the lens of the eye, with the help of an infrared-laser. These microspopically small lumps refect the light in a specific pattern. To be quite sure and to confirm the diagnosis, some eye-drops are  put onto the lens in a second step. The drops react with the white protein lumps and form a greater chemical complex. When the scientists shine onto it with a special laserlight, the newly formed  giant molecules shine fluorescently, hence are easily detecable. Clinical tests will soon confirm the reliability of this method.
Now, before we start forgetting our name -:) let's just hope that the team around Lee Goldstein finishes the clinical tests and his method goes around the world!