{"id":212842,"date":"2025-04-30T06:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/skin-based-test-could-improve-diagnosis-of-debilitating-neurodegenerative-disease"},"modified":"2025-04-30T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:03:51","slug":"skin-based-test-could-improve-diagnosis-of-debilitating-neurodegenerative-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/skin-based-test-could-improve-diagnosis-of-debilitating-neurodegenerative-disease","title":{"rendered":"Skin-based test could improve diagnosis of debilitating neurodegenerative disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skin-based-test-could-improve-diagnosis-of-debilitating-neurodegenerative-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University Health Network (UHN) and the University of Toronto have developed a skin-based test that can detect signature features of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects body movements, including walking, balance and swallowing.<\/p>\n<p>The test, which the researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamaneurology\/fullarticle\/2824066\" target=\"_blank\">describe<\/a> in a recent issue of <i>JAMA Neurology<\/i>, could allow for more accurate and faster PSP diagnosis than current methods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/assay\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">assay<\/a> is important for assigning patients to the correct <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/clinical+trials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">clinical trials<\/a>, but it will be even more important in the future as researchers develop targeted, precision treatments for PSP,\u201d says Ivan Martinez-Valbuena, a scientific associate at the Rossy Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Centre at the UHN\u2019s Krembil Brain Institute and U of T\u2019s Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University Health Network (UHN) and the University of Toronto have developed a skin-based test that can detect signature features of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects body movements, including walking, balance and swallowing. The test, which the researchers describe in a recent issue of JAMA Neurology, could allow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212842","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}