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thesciencellama: “Using the eye as a ‘window to the brain’” With a quick and relatively cheap optical scan using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), the extent to which brain damage due to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be measured accurately. MS is an autoimmune disease where our own cells attack and damage certain areas, in this case it is a fatty protein called myelin that insulates and helps send signals in nerves corresponding to motor control of speech among other things. Via hopkindsmedicine.org Gif of OCT scan of fingertipPhoto of retinal layers

thesciencellama:

“Using the eye as a ‘window to the brain’”

With a quick and relatively cheap optical scan using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), the extent to which brain damage due to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be measured accurately. MS is an autoimmune disease where our own cells attack and damage certain areas, in this case it is a fatty protein called myelin that insulates and helps send signals in nerves corresponding to motor control of speech among other things.

Via hopkindsmedicine.org

Gif of OCT scan of fingertip
Photo of retinal layers

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7 months ago on October 23, 2012 at 08:53pm
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