Abstract:
:The ensuing upward shift in demographic distribution due to the increase in life expectancy has resulted in a rising prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The heavy public burden of AD, along with the urgent to prevent and treat the disease before the irreversible damage to the brain, calls for a sensitive and specific screening technology to identify high-risk individuals before cognitive symptoms arise. Even though current modalities, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker, showed their potential clinical uses in early detection of AD, the high cost, narrow isotope availability of PET probes and invasive characteristics of CSF biomarker limited their broad utility. Therefore, additional tools for detection of AD are needed. As a projection of the central nervous system (CNS), the retina has been described as a "window to the brain" and a novel marker for AD. Low cost, easy accessibility and non-invasive features make retina tests suitable for large-scale population screening and investigations of preclinical AD. Furthermore, a number of novel approaches in retina imaging, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), have been developed and made it possible to visualize changes in the retina at a very fine resolution. In this review, we outline the background for AD to accelerate the adoption of retina imaging for the diagnosis and management of AD in clinical practice. Then, we focus on recent findings on the application of retina imaging to investigate AD and provide suggestions for future research directions.
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Front Aging Neuroscijournal_title
Frontiers in aging neuroscienceauthors
Liao H,Zhu Z,Peng Ydoi
10.3389/fnagi.2018.00188subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-06-22 00:00:00pages
188issn
1663-4365journal_volume
10pub_type
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
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doi:10.3389/fnagi.2014.00060
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2016.00138
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2016.00159
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abstract::Centronuclear myopathies (CNMs) are a genetically heterogeneous group of inherited neuromuscular disorders characterized by clinical features of a congenital myopathy and abundant central nuclei as the most prominent histopathological feature. The most common forms of congenital myopathies with central nuclei have bee...
journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2014.00339
更新日期:2014-12-19 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
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doi:10.3389/fnagi.2019.00254
更新日期:2019-09-13 00:00:00
abstract::Background: There has been much research devoted to examining the short-term effects of different interventions for improving memory functioning of older adults with memory complaints. Nevertheless, very few studies have examined the long-term effects of these interventions. Thus, the present study compared the sustai...
journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2018.00240
更新日期:2018-08-07 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00013
更新日期:2017-02-02 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00359
更新日期:2017-11-02 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2020.00177
更新日期:2020-06-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2010.00026
更新日期:2010-08-06 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00048
更新日期:2017-03-03 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2019.00047
更新日期:2019-03-27 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2016.00094
更新日期:2016-05-02 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2014.00021
更新日期:2014-02-24 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2020.00183
更新日期:2020-06-30 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00294
更新日期:2017-09-12 00:00:00
abstract::[This corrects the article on p. 7 in vol. 7, PMID: 25762930.]. ...
journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 已发布勘误
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更新日期:2015-05-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2016.00304
更新日期:2016-12-20 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2015.00007
更新日期:2015-02-16 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2019-07-17 00:00:00
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journal_title:Frontiers in aging neuroscience
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3389/fnagi.2014.00091
更新日期:2014-05-15 00:00:00