Andrew Huberman· PhD
you know in Alzheimer's disease as an example you know we really talk a lot about the degeneration of Basil forbrain colonic neurons that are leading to the cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease but it turns out that there is also some degeneration throughout other areas of the brain including the retina and since we have such a relatively easy time Imaging the retina you can go into your doctor's office and get a quick little uh sort of laser scan of the retina a picture of the retina compared to like going through a full MRI process for your brain uh and we can detect the degeneration of the retina optic nerve associated with Alzheimer's disease it looks like the same thing is happening in Perkins disease and Ms