ReviewJournal of neuroinflammation2024
Imaging the eye as a window to brain health: frontier approaches and future directions.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in epilepsy: a meta-analysis comparing affected patients with healthy controls.BMC ophthalmology · 2026Pooled it
- Plasma Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein and Neurofilament Light Chain Concentrations Are Inversely Associated with Retinal Microvascular Perfusion and Vessel Density in Cognitively Normal Individuals with Familial or Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Eye as a Window to Neurodegeneration: Oxidative Stress, Optic Nerve Vulnerability, and Retinal Biomarkers-A Scoping Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Retinal proteome changes mirror brain pathology and reveal synaptic and cytoskeletal dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.Acta neuropathologica · 2026Article
- Seeing Through Feeling: Dynamic Interplay Between Emotion and Visual Perception.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Diagnostic Value of Ocular Hemodynamics and Choroidal Thickness in Unilateral Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Non-Invasive Biomarkers of Systemic Microvascular Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Microglial Autofluorescence in the Brain and Retina is Dynamically Modulated by Systemic Inflammation.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026Article
- Complement in brain and eye disease: shared mechanisms, convergent pathologies, and common therapeutic opportunities.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2026Review
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- Beyond the dataset: integrating public voices in data science.Research involvement and engagement · 2026Article
- Electroretinography as a non-invasive biomarker for early detection of cognitive impairment in older adults: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2026Article
- Optimizing stimulation parameters: transpalpebral and transbrain electrical stimulation for retinal protection in RCS rats.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Article
- Biomolecular Aspects of Reelin in Neurodegenerative Disorders: An Old Candidate for a New Linkage of the Gut-Brain-Eye Axis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Ocular-cerebral immune dialogue: a new perspective and therapeutic potential of regional lymphatic systems.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Extracellular vesicle signatures from eye lavage as novel non-invasive biomarkers for hypoxic ischaemic insult-findings from a neonatal mouse model.Frontiers in medical technology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Recent years have seen significant advances in diagnostic testing of central nervous system (CNS) function and disease. However, there remain challenges in developing a comprehensive suite of non- or minimally invasive assays of neural health and disease progression. Due to the direct connection with the CNS, structural changes in the neural retina, retinal vasculature and morphological changes in retinal immune cells can occur in parallel with disease conditions in the brain. The retina can also, uniquely, be assessed directly and non-invasively. For these reasons, the retina may prove to be an important "window" for revealing and understanding brain disease. In this review, we discuss the gross anatomy of the eye, focusing on the sensory and non-sensory cells of the retina, especially microglia, that lend themselves to diagnosing brain disease by imaging the retina. We include a history of ocular imaging to describe the different imaging approaches undertaken in the past and outline current and emerging technologies including retinal autofluorescence imaging, Raman spectroscopy, and artificial intelligence image analysis. These new technologies show promising potential for retinal imaging to be used as a tool for the diagnosis of brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and others and the assessment of treatment success.
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