News tagged with amblyopia
Treating lazy eyes with a joystick
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Four percent of all children suffer from amblyopia, better known as "lazy eye syndrome." Traditional treatment for the condition requires the use of an eye patch, often for months at a time, before the eye is corrected. This ...
Test allows early detection of vision problems in infants with hemangiomas of eyelids
Apr 01, 2009 |
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In children with vascular birthmarks around the eye, even partial blockage of vision can lead to visual loss due to amblyopia. Now a simple test can detect early evidence of amblyopia in infants too young for conventional ...
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Lazy eye treatment times could be drastically reduced, new research shows
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Treatment times for amblyopia — more commonly known as 'lazy eye' — could be drastically reduced thanks to research carried out at The University of Nottingham.
Old eyes can learn new tricks; findings offer hope for adults with 'lazy eye'
Jul 17, 2008 |
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New evidence that the brain regions responsible for vision are capable of adapting in adults offers new hope for those with an untreated condition commonly known as lazy eye. Also called amblyopia, the condition is the most ...
'Lazy eye' treatment shows promise in adults
Mar 03, 2008 |
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New evidence from a laboratory study and a pilot clinical trial confirms the promise of a simple treatment for amblyopia, or “lazy eye,” according to researchers from the U.S. and China.
Seeing Straight
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Evidence from laboratory studies and a pilot clinical trial confirms the promise of a simple treatment for amblyopia, or “lazy eye,” according to researchers from the United States and China.
Video games shown to improve vision
Mar 15, 2007 |
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According to a new study from the University of Rochester, playing action video games sharpens vision. In tests of visual acuity that assess the ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space, game players scored ...
Action video games improve vision
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research in today's Nature Neuroscience.
Corneal transplant technique shows promise in children
Jul 15, 2008 |
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For infants and children with blinding diseases of the cornea, a sophisticated new corneal transplantation technique offers the hope of improving vision while overcoming the technical difficulty and low success rate of traditional ...
Revealing the machinery underlying the 'plastic' juvenile brain
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Feb 28, 2007 |
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Among the central mysteries of neurobiology is what properties of the young brain enable it to so adeptly wire itself to adapt to experience—a quality known as plasticity. The extraordinary plasticity of the young brain occurs ...
Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system
Apr 17, 2008 |
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In the April 18 issue of Science, scientists from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy and the Neuroscience Centre at the University of Helsinki, Finland, provide new information about the mechanism of action of ant ...
Leicester breakthrough in eye disease
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Leicester have identified for the first time a gene which causes a distressing eye condition. Their discovery, as reported in the journal Nature Genetics, is expected to lead to better treatm ...
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