On 03/07/2010 10:37 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > >> Possibly a new method of detecting Alzheimer's: >> >> Eye test that spots Alzheimer's 20 years before symptoms: Middle-aged >> could be screened at routine optician's visit >> >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243181/Simple-eye-test-Alzheimers-catch-disease-crucial-early-stage.html >> >> >> http://tinyurl.com/ycgesjs > > Thanks for posting that new Alzheimer's screening test information. I > hope that becomes commonly available soon. It sounds like it should work > for more than just Alzheimer's. It should determine the existence of > other forms of dementia as well.
Indeed, that is a fascinating study! Far more interesting, and maybe a lot more useful, than the last thing I read about Alzheimer's and eyes, which was a link between slow recovery rate from eye drops to dilate the pupil and Alzheimer's. (In fact this result may explain the earlier result, which seemed rather inexplicable at the time.) I am reminded of another study which suggests that the damage from Alzheimer's actually begins many decades before the disease manifests itself in obvious symptoms: http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/ResearchInformation/NewsReleases/Archives/PR1996/PR19960220nunstudy.htm http://tinyurl.com/ydofya3 Executive summary: A convent which kept records over a very long period, including essays written by the sisters at admission, opened their records for use in a longitudinal Alzheimer's study. The conclusion was that idea density and writing style in the essays written when the sisters entered the convent as young adults predicted the later development of Alzheimer's with rather high reliability. Very, very startling result, IMHO. > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > >
