A neuroscientist at Einstein College of Medicine is trying…
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A neuroscientist at Einstein College of Medicine is trying to map how inflammation damages the brain
I think this is a clear example of what happens when research falls into a gap between traditional funding priorities.
Faye McKenna, a neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who has published in Nature and Molecular Psychiatry, wants to do something that sounds like it should already exist: map how standard blood inflammation markers (easily ordered by your doctor) actually connect to what's happening inside the brain at the tissue level (microglia activation, iron deposition, free water changes). At a population scale, comparing autoimmune disease patients to the general population.
This data doesn't exist yet. We know inflammation damages the brain. We don't have a systematic map of how the inflammatory markers in your blood relate to the neuroinflammation we can see on brain imaging.
It feels like in the future this information should be easily and routinely checked when visiting your doctor.
#technology
I think this is a clear example of what happens when research falls into a gap between traditional funding priorities.
Faye McKenna, a neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who has published in Nature and Molecular Psychiatry, wants to do something that sounds like it should already exist: map how standard blood inflammation markers (easily ordered by your doctor) actually connect to what's happening inside the brain at the tissue level (microglia activation, iron deposition, free water changes). At a population scale, comparing autoimmune disease patients to the general population.
This data doesn't exist yet. We know inflammation damages the brain. We don't have a systematic map of how the inflammatory markers in your blood relate to the neuroinflammation we can see on brain imaging.
It feels like in the future this information should be easily and routinely checked when visiting your doctor.
#technology
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