Deans' stroke musings: Eye Scans Detect Parkinson’s Years Before Symptoms Surface

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Eye Scans Detect Parkinson’s Years Before Symptoms Surface

With your risk of Parkinsons post stroke, does your doctor have enough functioning brain cells to get this into a testing protocol for all stroke patients?

Parkinson’s Disease May Have Link to Stroke March 2017

Do you prefer your doctor incompetence in this NOT KNOWING? OR NOT DOING?

Eye Scans Detect Parkinson’s Years Before Symptoms Surface

Summary: A new study identified markers in eye scans which can detect the presence of Parkinson’s disease an average of seven years before clinical presentation. This research, the largest of its kind, utilized artificial intelligence to analyze retinal imaging, revealing these early indicators of Parkinson’s.

The innovative field of “oculomics” has previously unveiled signs of various neurodegenerative conditions through eye scans. This development brings hope for early intervention and prevention of the debilitating disease.

Key Facts:

Retinal imaging detected Parkinson’s disease markers seven years before clinical symptoms.
The study used AI to analyze the AlzEye dataset and confirmed findings with the UK Biobank database.
This “oculomics” technique has previously identified early signs of Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and schizophrenia.

Source: UCL

Markers that indicate the presence of Parkinson’s disease in patients on average seven years before clinical presentation have been identified by a UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital research team.

This is the first time anyone has shown these findings several years before diagnosis, and these results were made possible by the largest study to date on retinal imaging in Parkinson’s disease.