{"id":12983,"date":"2017-08-22T06:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T06:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2017-08-22T06:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T06:43:54","slug":"eye-scan-detect-alzheimers-symptoms-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/eye-scan-detect-alzheimers-symptoms-occur\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Scan Could Detect Alzheimer\u2019s Before Symptoms Occur"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There may be a new method to detect Alzheimer\u2019s disease years before a patient starts to exhibit symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have discovered that Alzheimer\u2019s disease affects the retina similar to how it affects the brain. A new high-definition eye scan can clue doctors into key signs of Alzheimer\u2019s years before patients experience symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe findings suggest that the retina may serve as a reliable source for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis,\u201d senior lead author Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, Ph.D., a principal investigator and associate professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai, said in a statement. \u201cOne of the major advantages of analyzing the retina is the repeatability, which allows us to monitor patients and potentially the progression of their disease.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the eye scan\u2014which was developed particularly for the study\u2014researchers detected early warning signs of Alzheimer\u2019s, including amyloid-beta deposits\u2014a buildup of toxic proteins.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers said amyloid plaques have been previously overlooked in peripheral regions of the retina, but they found that the plaque amount in the retina correlated with plaque amount in specific areas of the brain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is that eventually the investigational eye scan will be used as a screening device to detect the disease early enough to intervene and change the course of the disorder with medications and lifestyle changes,\u201d Dr. Keith Black, the chair of Cedars-Sinai\u2019s Department of Neurosurgery, director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and co-leader of the study, said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the study, the researchers conducted a trial on 16 Alzheimer\u2019s sufferers. The participants were asked to drink a solution that includes curcumin\u2014a natural component of the spice turmeric.<\/span><\/p>\n

The curcumin causes the amyloid plaque in the retina to \u201clight up,\u201d making it easier to be detected by the scan. The researchers then compared the results to a group of younger, cognitively normal individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, more than five million Americans suffer from the disease with the number expected to triple by 2050.<\/span><\/p>\n

For decades, it was only possible to diagnose Alzheimer\u2019s by surveying and analyzing a patient\u2019s brain after the patient has died. Recently, physicians have used positron emission tomography scans of the brains of living people to show evidence of the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, this technique is considered expensive and invasive, requiring the patient to be injected with radioactive tracers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers collaborated with investigators at NeuroVision Imagining, Commonwealth Scientific and the Industrial Research Organisation, the University of Southern California and UCLA to translate the noninvasive eye screening approach to humans in a cost-effective manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: biossciencetechnology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There may be a new method to detect Alzheimer\u2019s disease years before a patient starts to exhibit symptoms. Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have discovered that Alzheimer\u2019s disease affects the retina similar to how it affects the brain. A new high-definition eye scan can clue doctors into key signs of Alzheimer\u2019s years before patients experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",800,534,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye-768x513.jpg",750,501,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",750,501,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",800,534,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",800,534,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",800,534,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",800,534,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",600,401,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",600,401,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",734,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",539,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",640,427,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eye.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Medicine<\/a> Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}