Gaining Sight After Years of Blindness Takes Time. Visual areas of the brain need to learn to organize and interpret sensory ...

Congenital blindness affects individuals born without sight or who lose vision very early in life. These individuals develop different neural pathways for processing information about their ...

As a paper just published in Frontiers in Psychology points out, congenital and early blindness appears to protect against schizophrenia. As the authors note, “across all past papers, there has ...

Congenital blindness refers to someone who is visually impaired at birth. Legal blindness is identified when someone has central vision of 20/200 or worse in their best eye, with the help of ...

This congenital blindness is caused by mutations in the GUCY2D gene. The patients in the study showed large increases in visual function within days of being treated.

A new study has offered hope that we could be close to finally finding a treatment for a rare form of inherited blindness in adults. Such a treatment has been sorely lacking after recent results ...

Targeting people with a variant of Leber congenital amaurosis (known as LCA1) — a kind of vision loss not easily corrected with glasses — the researchers cut three incisions near the iris of ...

Some forms of congenital blindness originate from abnormalities in basic signaling mechanisms in photoreceptor neurons of the retina. Photoreceptors respond to light by modulating the permeability of ...

Centralblatt f. Augenheilkunde, December, 1880. Translated for the Journal by Dr. B. Joy Jeffries. Two very interesting cases of red blindness in one eye from Dr. Hippel and Professor Holmgren and ...

Centralblatt f. Augenheilkunde, December, 1880. Translated for the Journal by Dr. B. Joy Jeffries. Two very interesting cases of red blindness in one eye from Dr. Hippel and Professor Holmgren and ...