Can eyes help diagnose Alzheimer's disease?
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
An international team of researchers studying the link between vision loss and Alzheimer's disease report that the loss of a particular layer of retinal cells not previously investigated may provide a new way to track disease progression. "The retina is an extension of the brain so it makes sense to see if the same pathologic processes found in an Alzheimer's brain are also found in the eye," they explain.