DENVER — Retina imaging may reveal links to Parkinson’s disease, according to a poster presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.
“Some people ... would say that the eye is the window into the soul,” Michael Zhu, a medical student at Duke University School of Medicine, told Healio. “We think the eyes are also the window into the brain.”
Zhu and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional, case-control study that looked at how changes in the retina might be associated with Parkinson’s disease. Zhu said previous research has found links between Parkinson’s and