{"id":170396,"date":"2023-08-24T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/eye-scans-can-detect-parkinsons-years-before-symptoms-emerge"},"modified":"2023-08-24T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:22:42","slug":"eye-scans-can-detect-parkinsons-years-before-symptoms-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/eye-scans-can-detect-parkinsons-years-before-symptoms-emerge","title":{"rendered":"Eye Scans Can Detect Parkinson\u2019s Years Before Symptoms Emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eye-scans-can-detect-parkinsons-years-before-symptoms-emerge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human eyes are the only natural window we have into a person\u2019s central nervous system.<\/p>\n<p>By looking through them, scientists have found very early signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IYl\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a> disease, up to seven years before symptoms emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are based on three-dimensional eye scans, which are commonly used by optometrists to examine the health of someone\u2019s retina \u2013 the layer of nerve cells at the back of the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human eyes are the only natural window we have into a person\u2019s central nervous system. By looking through them, scientists have found very early signs of Parkinson\u2019s disease, up to seven years before symptoms emerge. The findings are based on three-dimensional eye scans, which are commonly used by optometrists to examine the health of someone\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}