{"id":88549,"date":"2019-03-11T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/alzheimers-disease-can-be-spotted-through-simple-eye-test"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:22:57","slug":"alzheimers-disease-can-be-spotted-through-simple-eye-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/alzheimers-disease-can-be-spotted-through-simple-eye-test","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s disease can be spotted through simple eye test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-disease-can-be-spotted-through-simple-eye-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease may soon be spotted through a simple eye test, after scientists discovered tell-tale alterations in the retina and blood vessels when dementia is present.<\/p>\n<p>Currently diagnosing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/02\/10\/exercise-could-prevent-alzheimers-triggering-hormone-helps-regrow\/\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> is tricky, requiring an expensive brain scan, a risky spinal tap or in most cases a behavioural assessment by a doctor based on symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>But US scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukehealth.org\/locations\/duke-eye-center\">Duke Eye Centre<\/a> in North Carolina, wondered if changes might also be visible in the retina, which is an extension of the brain and so could offer a window into what is happening behind the skull.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/03\/11\/alzheimers-disease-can-spotted-simple-eye-test\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/03\/11\/alzheimers-di...-eye-test\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease may soon be spotted through a simple eye test, after scientists discovered tell-tale alterations in the retina and blood vessels when dementia is present. Currently diagnosing Alzheimer\u2019s is tricky, requiring an expensive brain scan, a risky spinal tap or in most cases a behavioural assessment by a doctor based on symptoms. But US [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88549","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}