Glaucoma and Alzheimer’s Disease: Overlapping Diseases on the Same Spectrum?

At the American Glaucoma Society (AGS) 2026 Annual Meeting, Thomas Johnson, MD, PhD, explored the epidemiological and pathophysiological overlaps between glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease in a talk entitled “The Neurodegeneration Spectrum: Glaucoma and Alzheimer’s Disease.” In it, he highlighted similarities between these two neurodegenerative diseases and explained how insights from each condition could help advance the understanding of the other. 

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