Vision

Saccades Not Cultural: Chinese People Have Faster Eye Responses

Rapid eye movements, known as saccades, have been a source of a nature versus nurture debate. One hypothesis has been that this neurological behaviour is a product of culture in people of Chinese origin. A new study casts doubt on that. Scientists teste ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 5:12pm

Awareness: Babies Distinguish Real-Life Objects From Pictures At 9 Months

Babies begin to learn about the connection between pictures and real objects by the time they are nine-months-old, according to a new paper in Child Development. Babies can learn about a toy from a photograph of it well before their first birthday, the sc ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 11:01am

How To Save Medicare Billions- Pick One Drug For Common Eye Diseases

It sounds positively un-American to have government picking winner and losers in the drug marketplace, but the writing is on the wall for our health future: taxpayer-funded Medicare is going to be the economic driver in medical decision-making and policy ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 5:00pm

Glaucoma May Be A Brain Disease Rather Than An Eye One

A new study says the brain, not the eye, controls the cellular process that leads to glaucoma, a finding that may help develop treatments for one of the world's leading causes of irreversible blindness. In the paper, vision scientists and ophthalmolo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2014 - 6:56pm

Beer Goggles- The Science: Eye Physically Deteriorates After Alcohol Consumption

A new study has found that the eye's optical quality deteriorates after alcohol consumption. Not just how the images are interpreted, the way some unemployed guy who is 'getting his band together' looks more attractive at 2 AM after a few sh ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:51pm

Telemedicine Catches Retinopathy Of Prematurity Blinding Disease In Premature Babies

About 450,000 (12 percent) of the 3.9 million babies born each year in the United States are premature. Thanks to modern medicine, the number of preterm infants who survive has also surged in middle income countries in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Eur ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 1:01pm

Leber Congenital Amaurosis: Oral Treatment For Form Of Childhood Blindness Progressing

An international research project has reported that a new oral medication is showing significant progress in restoring vision to patients with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). This inherited retinal disease that causes visual impairment ranging from redu ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 8:32pm

Love Or Lust: The Eyes Give It Away

Is there a biomarker that can spot a player versus a potential soul mate? University of Chicago psychologists say that if it is so, the difference between love and lust might be in the eyes- specifically, where your date looks at you could indicate wheth ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 3:27pm

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of visual impairment and blindness in industrialized countries but it is questionable whether it can continue to be defined as a disease in people in their 50s and beyond. Investigations to d ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 4:00pm

Reading Glasses Are So 1,000 A.D.- Let's Have Vision-Correcting Displays

For older people, and farsighted people, watching television while also reading this article can be challenging experiences because the eyes do not adjust. So people wear glasses down on their nose to read while they watch something farther away. It' ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 7:00am