QBI Neuroscience Seminar : “The eye as a window to the brain: retinal imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease'

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 04 March 2020 - Wednesday, 04 March 2020

Time:

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Room:

QBI Level 7 Auditorium

UQ Location:

Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/neuroscience-seminars

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Associate Professor Peter van Wijngaarden
Centre for Eye Research Australia & University of Melbourne

Title: “The eye as a window to the brain: retinal imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease'

Abstract:
Retinal imaging has long held the promise of providing biomarkers of diseases of the central nervous system. A variety of ocular imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease have been described, however none have yet been adopted in clinical practice. A/Prof van Wijngaarden and his team have recently reported first in-human evidence of a novel retinal imaging biomarker that is associated with brain amyloid-beta levels. The team has combined non-invasive, in vivo hyperspectral imaging in conjunction with artificial intelligence image analysis methods to identify a retinal signature of Alzheimer’s disease. Additional studies are underway to establish whether this may serve as a low cost and convenient screening tool for the disease and as an adjunct to clinical studies of disease-modifying therapies.