Eyes may show early warnings for Alzheimer's » Borneo Bulletin Online
March 13, 2021 Elizabeth Anne Brown THE WASHINGTON POST – Forget the soul – it turns out the eyes may be the best window to the brain. Changes to the retina may foreshadow Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and researchers said a picture of your eye could assess your future risk of neurodegenerative disease. Pinched off from the brain during embryonic development, the retina contains layers of neurons that seem to experience neurodegenerative disease along with their cousins inside the skull. The key difference is that these retinal neurons, right against the jellylike vitreous of ...
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