BBC News | Skin may help spot Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease BBC News To test if the same was true in life as after death, the researchers recruited 65 volunteers - 12 who were healthy controls and the remaining 53 who had either Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's or another type of dementia. They took a small skin biopsy ... A Simple Skin Test May Detect Alzheimer's Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Skin Test: Early Promise Skin test 'could detect dementia' |