4 Topic Commentaries

Oculomics: Beyond the Buzzword

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  David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD

  Neurology; neuro-visual and vestibular disorders

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  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  This technology, because it relies solely on the mobile phone and not attachments, tripods or other equipment, is potentially transformational. It’s the difference between everyone being able to use it and only a tiny subset of people being able to use it.

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  Ali Saber Tehrani, MD, PhD

  Vascular neurology; neurotology

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  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  Ideally, a physician will be able to look at a patient who is dizzy or having neurologic symptoms, point the phone, and not only will the app objectively measure eye movements but also determine whether those results are consistent with a stroke without the physician having to do anything further.

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  Amir H. Kashani, MD, PhD

  Retina and vitreous diseases; ophthalmology

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  Those have been described in people who’ve passed away, but no one had looked at the retina (in vivo) and said, ‘These lesions are related to Alzheimer’s.’

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  Adrienne W. Scott, MD

  Retina and vitreous diseases; ophthalmology

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  There are certain reasons why we think the retinal blood vessels that we see in the eye every day with our dilation and those in the brain may have some connection: Both the retina and the brain have a similar embryonic origin in the way the tissues developed.

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