Vision

Understanding eye diseases is tricky enough but knowing what causes them at the molecular level will help. University of Iowa researchers have created the most detailed map to date of a region of the human eye long associated with blinding diseases, such ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2014 - 6:01pm

ADHD Diagnosis: Involuntary Eye Movement A "Foolproof" Indication

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is so commonly diagnosed – and overdiagnosed, and misdiagnosed – that it is hard to know what is based on evidence and what is based on teachers and concerned parents reacting to children that don't lik ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 2:00pm

Eyes With More Yellow Pigment See Better In Haze

People with more yellow pigment in their eye may be better able to see distant objects in hazy conditions, according to a new paper in Optometry and Vision Science. Increased macular pigment (MP) may help in filtering out "blue haze," thus maki ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 12:34pm

Kurt Vonnegut Was Right: Wear Sunglasses

Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is an eye condition that is a leading cause of secondary open-angle glaucoma and can lead to an increased risk of cataract and cataract surgery complications. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 4:57pm

New Glaucoma Cause Discovered, Could Lead To New Eye Drop

Glaucoma, a condition where pressure builds from poor drainage of fluid from the anterior chamber of the eye, destroying retinal ganglion cells and eventually the optic nerve, is a leading cause of blindness in the U.S. but a cure has been elusive because ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 7:00pm

How To Spot A Bad Decision: Pupil Size

A new paper believes it can measure the precision with which people make decisions- by pupil size before they are presented with any information. Spontaneous, moment-to-moment fluctuations in pupil size predicted how a selection of participants varied in ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 3:44pm

Vitamin E, Selenium Don't Help Age-Related Cataracts In Men

Taking daily supplements of selenium and/or vitamin E appears to have no significant effect on the development of age-related cataracts in men, according to new findings from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) Eye Endpoints (SEE) ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2014 - 8:01am

Blind Spot: Our Coming Eye Disease Epidemic

Almost 2 million Americans have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and about 100,000 are blind from the disease. In AMD, cells in the retina, that layer of tissue in the back of the eye, begin to break down. What was once sharp cent ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 25 2014 - 6:21pm

Have Sharp Vision? Your Brain May Be Fooling You

We assume that we can see the world around us in sharp detail but our eyes only process a fraction of our surroundings precisely. In a series of experiments, psychologists at Bielefeld University investigated how the brain fools us into believing that we ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 2:39pm

Humans May Have A Spidey Sense For Blind Spots

Credit: Tobyotter via flickr By: Nala Rogers, Inside Science (Inside Science)-- The spider's iconic leggy shape can abruptly yank our attention, even when we’re focused on something else, according to a new study. Other shapes such as houseflies and ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 19 2014 - 9:01am