Detecting Parkinson’s Disease: Alpha-Synuclein in Tear Fluid
For decades, a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been a trailing indicator. Clinicians waited for the appearance of motor symptoms—the telltale tremor, rigidity, or bradykinesia—to confirm a disease that had likely been silently dismantling the brain’s dopaminergic neurons for years. But we are currently witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift: the transition from clinical diagnosis … Read more