Variations in Eye Structure and Function May Mean You Will Get Alzheimer's
Who isn't afraid of Alzheimer's? Since I hang out now with a lot of people of "a certain age," it's something that's talked about a lot. Now a new study is saying that variations in eye structure and function may reveal early signs of this dreaded disease. According to newswise.com, " Investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute have discovered eye abnormalities that may help reveal features of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Using a novel laboratory rat model of Alzheimer’s disease and high-resolution imaging techniques, researchers correlated variations of the eye structure, to identify initial indicators of the disease." “Detecting changes in the brain that indicate Alzheimer’s disease can be an extremely challenging task,” the Web site quotes Shaomei Wang, MD, PhD , lead author of the study and an associate professor in the Regenerative Medicine Institute and Department of Biomedical Sciences . “By using the eye