Developing the eye test that will make it possible to detect Alzheimer’s disease early and well before the appearance of the first symptoms: many scientists are working on this. Because it now seems accepted that there are close links between Alzheimer’s disease and certain disorders of the retina.
A new New Zealand study suggests For this study, researchers followed more than 1,000 babies born in the early 1970s in a hospital in New Zealand, from birth to age 45. The thickness of two different parts of the retina (retinal nerve fiber layers and ganglion cell layers) were measured on the scans. The analysis showed that study participants with thinner retinal layers scored lower on tests of cognitive performance, both as adults and as children.
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