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UrduResearchers at the University of South Florida (USF) have discovered a novel feedback pathway from the brain to the eye that modulates eye pressure – a significant advancement in the effort to diagnose and treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is associated with…
Tag: Ophthalmology
No need to draw blood — smart photonic contact lens for diabetic diagnosis and retinopathy treatment
Diabetic patients need to measure their blood-sugar level by drawing blood before and after a meal and it is easy to develop complications due to diabetes. Recently, a research team from POSTECH developed technology that allows diagnosis of diabetes and…
Team’s fabricated corneal tissue allows closer look at how eyes heal
NIH grant helps researchers develop new ways to study eye’s repair mechanisms
Team’s fabricated corneal tissue allows closer look at how eyes heal
NIH grant helps researchers develop new ways to study eye’s repair mechanisms
Study reveals sex differences in the global burden of glaucoma
Worldwide, the burden of glaucoma–quantified as health loss–is higher in men than in women, according to a recent analysis published in Acta Ophthalmologica . The burden of glaucoma was estimated as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), or the total number of…
Study reveals sex differences in the global burden of glaucoma
Worldwide, the burden of glaucoma–quantified as health loss–is higher in men than in women, according to a recent analysis published in Acta Ophthalmologica . The burden of glaucoma was estimated as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), or the total number of…
UNH researchers solve protein structure associated with inherited retinal diseases
DURHAM, N.H. – Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have reported the first structural model for a key enzyme, and its activating protein, that can play a role in some genetically inherited eye diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and night…
UNH researchers solve protein structure associated with inherited retinal diseases
DURHAM, N.H. – Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have reported the first structural model for a key enzyme, and its activating protein, that can play a role in some genetically inherited eye diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and night…
NYC Health + Hospitals and SUNY Optometry announce partnership
Enhancing vision services across New York City
Oregon researchers test hearing by looking at dilation of people’s eyes
Proof-of-concept project shows finds involuntary dilation upon hearing sounds matches up with traditional testing and offers an approach to assess hearing in those who cannot respond
Experts Come Together to Save 3-year-old Gorilla’s Eyesight at San Diego Zoo Safari Park
San Diego Zoo Safari Park and UC San Diego Health experts performed cataract surgery to restore a 3-year-old gorilla’s eyesight.
URI, BayCare, Butler Hospital launch trial for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
Study seeks 330 volunteers for clinical trials
URI, BayCare, Butler Hospital launch trial for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
Study seeks 330 volunteers for clinical trials
Glaucoma Research Foundation to Host 9th Annual Glaucoma 360 at Grand Hyatt in San Francisco
The three-day event highlights innovation in glaucoma therapies to ensure patients have access to the latest and most effective diagnostic tools and treatment options.
The brain can combine natural and artificial vision to help treat common form of blindness
Macular degeneration (AMD) causes blindness in millions of people in the Western world. It is the most common cause of severe vision loss in the Western world among those aged 50 and over, and its prevalence increases with age. Though…
Finding your way in the dark depends on your internal clock
Surprising results show how circadian rhythm changes the way mammals can see
Finding your way in the dark depends on your internal clock
Surprising results show how circadian rhythm changes the way mammals can see
Poor sight causes people to overstep the mark
Visually-impaired risk falling by stepping higher and more slowly over objects
Poor sight causes people to overstep the mark
Visually-impaired risk falling by stepping higher and more slowly over objects
Dartmouth study finds conscious visual perception occurs outside the visual system
A Dartmouth study finds that the conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, rather than in the visual system in the back of the brain. The findings are published in Current Biology . The…
Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery
In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain’s visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear’s lab has followed the science wherever it has led, yielding the discovery of cellular mechanisms serving visual recognition memory, in which…
Dartmouth study finds conscious visual perception occurs outside the visual system
A Dartmouth study finds that the conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, rather than in the visual system in the back of the brain. The findings are published in Current Biology . The…
Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery
In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain’s visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear’s lab has followed the science wherever it has led, yielding the discovery of cellular mechanisms serving visual recognition memory, in which…
LSU Health discovers role of 2 proteins in sight and preventing blinding eye diseases
New Orleans, LA – Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discovered unique patterns of genetic activity that may lead to…
Babies in the womb may see more than we thought
Light-sensitive cells in immature retina are networked, suggesting bigger role in developing brain
Babies in the womb may see more than we thought
Light-sensitive cells in immature retina are networked, suggesting bigger role in developing brain
Air pollution linked to higher glaucoma risk
Living in a more polluted area is associated with a greater likelihood of having glaucoma, a debilitating eye condition that can cause blindness, finds a new UCL-led study in the UK
Under the lens: Link between macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa
University of Houston research team examines eye disease with $2.5 million award
Air pollution linked to higher glaucoma risk
Living in a more polluted area is associated with a greater likelihood of having glaucoma, a debilitating eye condition that can cause blindness, finds a new UCL-led study in the UK
Under the lens: Link between macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa
University of Houston research team examines eye disease with $2.5 million award
Contact lens for childhood myopia coming to the US in 2020
FDA Approval of CooperVision MiSight 1 day offers new prospects for parents, children and medical professionals; will become the first and only product of its kind available in the US
How do those born preterm at very low birth weight fare as adults?
A follow up study seeks to reduce in adult life of those born preterm at very low birth weight
How do those born preterm at very low birth weight fare as adults?
A follow up study seeks to reduce in adult life of those born preterm at very low birth weight
Revised criteria lead to more accurate screening for eye disease in premature infants
CHOP physicians develop new screening approach for retinopathy of prematurity with potential to reduce unnecessary tests
Revised criteria lead to more accurate screening for eye disease in premature infants
CHOP physicians develop new screening approach for retinopathy of prematurity with potential to reduce unnecessary tests
NJIT biomedical engineer Tara Alvarez is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the…
NJIT biomedical engineer Tara Alvarez is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the…
LSU Health research discovers potential new Rx target for AMD and Alzheimer’s
New Orleans, LA – Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found a new mechanism by which a class of molecules his…
Scientists explain the origin of brain mapping diversity for eye dominance
The human visual brain devotes most of its neuronal resources to process the part of the visual scene that we see with both eyes. To achieve this goal, afferents from the two eyes representing the same binocular point in visual…
LSU Health research discovers potential new Rx target for AMD and Alzheimer’s
New Orleans, LA – Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found a new mechanism by which a class of molecules his…
Scientists explain the origin of brain mapping diversity for eye dominance
The human visual brain devotes most of its neuronal resources to process the part of the visual scene that we see with both eyes. To achieve this goal, afferents from the two eyes representing the same binocular point in visual…
Wills Eye Hospital presents 4 inaugural awards at gala celebrating renowned retina service
Beloved, late retina surgeon is remembered, his family receives standing ovation as hospital leaders announce early outpouring of support with over 1 million dollars raised for research fund in his name
Wills Eye Hospital presents 4 inaugural awards at gala celebrating renowned retina service
Beloved, late retina surgeon is remembered, his family receives standing ovation as hospital leaders announce early outpouring of support with over 1 million dollars raised for research fund in his name
Zooming into cilia sheds light into blinding diseases
A new study published today by researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and UT Health’s McGovern Medical School in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals an unprecedented close-up view of cilia linked to blindness. Cilia are short…
An NJIT engineer proposes a new model for the way humans localize sounds
One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person’s ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals – from lizards to humans – to pinpoint the location of danger,…
Researchers say elite-level video gaming requires new protocols in sports medicine
Esport athletes at risk for physical, psychological and metabolic disorders, according to study in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
Researchers say elite-level video gaming requires new protocols in sports medicine
Esport athletes at risk for physical, psychological and metabolic disorders, according to study in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
Researchers say elite-level video gaming requires new protocols in sports medicine
Esport athletes at risk for physical, psychological and metabolic disorders, according to study in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
Treatment for common vision disorder does not improve children’s reading skills
NIH-funded study finds therapy for convergence insufficiency is no better at improving reading than placebo
Why, sometimes, we don’t see what we actually saw
WASHINGTON — Georgetown University neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a “crash in visual processing” — a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli that our brain…