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Your eyes may be a window into early Alzheimer's detection

An ultra wide digital scan of a human eye showing the veins and capillaries in a retina, the region of the eye that translates light into electrical signals that are sent to the brain.

2024-04-15    

“Alzheimer’s disease starts very early on in terms of the pathological changes, which can occur decades before symptoms do,” says Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, a neuroscientist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who led the new study and collaborated with researchers in Italy and Australia. If clinicians could reliably diagnose the disorder in this period before symptoms appear, they could try interventions to slow down its progression. New drugs on the market, like lecanemab, for example, target patients with mild impairment before the symptoms become irreversible.

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