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BlindnessNight BlindnessBlindness, CorticalVision, LowOnchocerciasis, OcularCataractVisually Impaired PersonsXerophthalmiaTrachomaEye Diseases, HereditaryVisual AcuityEye DiseasesVision DisordersGlaucomaCataract ExtractionRefractive ErrorsVitamin A DeficiencyEye InjuriesElectroretinographyMacular DegenerationCorneal DiseasesNepalPrevalenceColor Vision DefectsOnchocerca volvulusOptic AtrophyRetinaRetinal DiseasesOphthalmologyCorneal OpacityDiabetic RetinopathyRetinal DegenerationRetinitis PigmentosaGenetic Diseases, X-LinkedIndiaOnchocerciasisAmaurosis FugaxEye ProteinsKeratitisAge DistributionDark AdaptationGlaucoma, Open-AngleAphakiaLeber Congenital AmaurosisRetinopathy of PrematurityNigeriaRetinal Rod Photoreceptor CellsTrichiasisRural HealthEducation, SpecialVision, Ocularcis-trans-IsomerasesCartoons as TopicSex DistributionEducation of Visually DisabledPhotoreceptor Cells, VertebratePedigreeVision ScreeningMyopiaUveitisEyeglassesRhodopsinOmanFundus OculiVitamin ASensory AidsTongaVision TestsOnchocercaWorld HealthHealth SurveysField Dependence-IndependenceSudanColor Perception Tests
Blindness: The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.Night Blindness: Failure or imperfection of vision at night or in dim light, with good vision only on bright days. (Dorland, 27th ed)Blindness, Cortical: Total loss of vision in all or part of the visual field due to bilateral OCCIPITAL LOBE (i.e., VISUAL CORTEX) damage or dysfunction. Anton syndrome is characterized by the psychic denial of true, organic cortical blindness. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p460)Vision, Low: Vision considered to be inferior to normal vision as represented by accepted standards of acuity, field of vision, or motility. Low vision generally refers to visual disorders that are caused by diseases that cannot be corrected by refraction (e.g., MACULAR DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY, etc.).Onchocerciasis, Ocular: Filarial infection of the eyes transmitted from person to person by bites of Onchocerca volvulus-infected black flies. The microfilariae of Onchocerca are thus deposited beneath the skin. They migrate through various tissues including the eye. Those persons infected have impaired vision and up to 20% are blind. The incidence of eye lesions has been reported to be as high as 30% in Central America and parts of Africa.Cataract: Partial or complete opacity on or in the lens or capsule of one or both eyes, impairing vision or causing blindness. The many kinds of cataract are classified by their morphology (size, shape, location) or etiology (cause and time of occurrence). (Dorland, 27th ed)Visually Impaired Persons: Persons with loss of vision such that there is an impact on activities of daily living.Xerophthalmia: Dryness of the eye surfaces caused by deficiency of tears or conjunctival secretions. It may be associated with vitamin A deficiency, trauma, or any condition in which the eyelids do not close completely.Trachoma: A chronic infection of the CONJUNCTIVA and CORNEA caused by CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS.Eye Diseases, Hereditary: Transmission of gene defects or chromosomal aberrations/abnormalities which are expressed in extreme variation in the structure or function of the eye. These may be evident at birth, but may be manifested later with progression of the disorder.Visual Acuity: Clarity or sharpness of OCULAR VISION or the ability of the eye to see fine details. Visual acuity depends on the functions of RETINA, neuronal transmission, and the interpretative ability of the brain. Normal visual acuity is expressed as 20/20 indicating that one can see at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance. Visual acuity can also be influenced by brightness, color, and contrast.Eye Diseases: Diseases affecting the eye.Vision Disorders: Visual impairments limiting one or more of the basic functions of the eye: visual acuity, dark adaptation, color vision, or peripheral vision. These may result from EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAY diseases; OCCIPITAL LOBE diseases; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; and other conditions (From Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p132).Glaucoma: An ocular disease, occurring in many forms, having as its primary characteristics an unstable or a sustained increase in the intraocular pressure which the eye cannot withstand without damage to its structure or impairment of its function. The consequences of the increased pressure may be manifested in a variety of symptoms, depending upon type and severity, such as excavation of the optic disk, hardness of the eyeball, corneal anesthesia, reduced visual acuity, seeing of colored halos around lights, disturbed dark adaptation, visual field defects, and headaches. (Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)Cataract Extraction: The removal of a cataractous CRYSTALLINE LENS from the eye.Refractive Errors: Deviations from the average or standard indices of refraction of the eye through its dioptric or refractive apparatus.Vitamin A Deficiency: A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN A in the diet, characterized by NIGHT BLINDNESS and other ocular manifestations such as dryness of the conjunctiva and later of the cornea (XEROPHTHALMIA). Vitamin A deficiency is a very common problem worldwide, particularly in developing countries as a consequence of famine or shortages of vitamin A-rich foods. In the United States it is found among the urban poor, the elderly, alcoholics, and patients with malabsorption. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1179)Eye Injuries: Damage or trauma inflicted to the eye by external means. The concept includes both surface injuries and intraocular injuries.Electroretinography: Recording of electric potentials in the retina after stimulation by light.Macular Degeneration: Degenerative changes in the RETINA usually of older adults which results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the MACULA LUTEA) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in dry and wet forms.Corneal Diseases: Diseases of the cornea.NepalPrevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.Color Vision Defects: Defects of color vision are mainly hereditary traits but can be secondary to acquired or developmental abnormalities in the CONES (RETINA). Severity of hereditary defects of color vision depends on the degree of mutation of the ROD OPSINS genes (on X CHROMOSOME and CHROMOSOME 3) that code the photopigments for red, green and blue.Onchocerca volvulus: A species of parasitic nematodes widely distributed throughout central Africa and also found in northern South America, southern Mexico, and Guatemala. Its intermediate host and vector is the blackfly or buffalo gnat.Optic Atrophy: Atrophy of the optic disk which may be congenital or acquired. This condition indicates a deficiency in the number of nerve fibers which arise in the RETINA and converge to form the OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC CHIASM; and optic tracts. GLAUCOMA; ISCHEMIA; inflammation, a chronic elevation of intracranial pressure, toxins, optic nerve compression, and inherited conditions (see OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY) are relatively common causes of this condition.Retina: The ten-layered nervous tissue membrane of the eye. It is continuous with the OPTIC NERVE and receives images of external objects and transmits visual impulses to the brain. Its outer surface is in contact with the CHOROID and the inner surface with the VITREOUS BODY. The outer-most layer is pigmented, whereas the inner nine layers are transparent.Retinal DiseasesOphthalmology: A surgical specialty concerned with the structure and function of the eye and the medical and surgical treatment of its defects and diseases.Corneal Opacity: Disorder occurring in the central or peripheral area of the cornea. The usual degree of transparency becomes relatively opaque.Diabetic Retinopathy: Disease of the RETINA as a complication of DIABETES MELLITUS. It is characterized by the progressive microvascular complications, such as ANEURYSM, interretinal EDEMA, and intraocular PATHOLOGIC NEOVASCULARIZATION.Retinal Degeneration: A retrogressive pathological change in the retina, focal or generalized, caused by genetic defects, inflammation, trauma, vascular disease, or aging. Degeneration affecting predominantly the macula lutea of the retina is MACULAR DEGENERATION. (Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p304)Retinitis Pigmentosa: Hereditary, progressive degeneration of the neuroepithelium of the retina characterized by night blindness and progressive contraction of the visual field.Genetic Diseases, X-Linked: Genetic diseases that are linked to gene mutations on the X CHROMOSOME in humans (X CHROMOSOME, HUMAN) or the X CHROMOSOME in other species. Included here are animal models of human X-linked diseases.IndiaOnchocerciasis: Infection with nematodes of the genus ONCHOCERCA. Characteristics include the presence of firm subcutaneous nodules filled with adult worms, PRURITUS, and ocular lesions.Amaurosis Fugax: Transient complete or partial monocular blindness due to retinal ischemia. This may be caused by emboli from the CAROTID ARTERY (usually in association with CAROTID STENOSIS) and other locations that enter the central RETINAL ARTERY. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p245)Eye ProteinsKeratitis: Inflammation of the cornea.Age Distribution: The frequency of different ages or age groups in a given population. The distribution may refer to either how many or what proportion of the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.Dark Adaptation: Adjustment of the eyes under conditions of low light. The sensitivity of the eye to light is increased during dark adaptation.Glaucoma, Open-Angle: Glaucoma in which the angle of the anterior chamber is open and the trabecular meshwork does not encroach on the base of the iris.Aphakia: Absence of crystalline lens totally or partially from field of vision, from any cause except after cataract extraction. Aphakia is mainly congenital or as result of LENS DISLOCATION AND SUBLUXATION.Leber Congenital Amaurosis: A rare degenerative inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life that results in a loss of vision. Not to be confused with LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY, the disease is thought to be caused by abnormal development of PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS in the RETINA, or by the extremely premature degeneration of retinal cells.Retinopathy of Prematurity: A bilateral retinopathy occurring in premature infants treated with excessively high concentrations of oxygen, characterized by vascular dilatation, proliferation, and tortuosity, edema, and retinal detachment, with ultimate conversion of the retina into a fibrous mass that can be seen as a dense retrolental membrane. Usually growth of the eye is arrested and may result in microophthalmia, and blindness may occur. (Dorland, 27th ed)Nigeria: A republic in western Africa, south of NIGER between BENIN and CAMEROON. Its capital is Abuja.Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells: Photosensitive afferent neurons located in the peripheral retina, with their density increases radially away from the FOVEA CENTRALIS. Being much more sensitive to light than the RETINAL CONE CELLS, the rod cells are responsible for twilight vision (at scotopic intensities) as well as peripheral vision, but provide no color discrimination.Trichiasis: A disease of the eye in which the eyelashes abnormally turn inwards toward the eyeball producing constant irritation caused by motion of the lids.Rural Health: The status of health in rural populations.Education, Special: Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction.Vision, Ocular: The process in which light signals are transformed by the PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS into electrical signals which can then be transmitted to the brain.cis-trans-Isomerases: Enzymes that catalyze the rearrangement of geometry about double bonds. EC 5.2.Cartoons as Topic: Images used to comment on such things as contemporary events, social habits, or political trends; usually executed in a broad or abbreviated manner.Sex Distribution: The number of males and females in a given population. The distribution may refer to how many men or women or what proportion of either in the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.Education of Visually Disabled: The teaching or training of those individuals with visual disability.Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate: Specialized PHOTOTRANSDUCTION neurons in the vertebrates, such as the RETINAL ROD CELLS and the RETINAL CONE CELLS. Non-visual photoreceptor neurons have been reported in the deep brain, the PINEAL GLAND and organs of the circadian system.Pedigree: The record of descent or ancestry, particularly of a particular condition or trait, indicating individual family members, their relationships, and their status with respect to the trait or condition.Vision Screening: Application of tests and examinations to identify visual defects or vision disorders occurring in specific populations, as in school children, the elderly, etc. It is differentiated from VISION TESTS, which are given to evaluate/measure individual visual performance not related to a specific population.Myopia: A refractive error in which rays of light entering the EYE parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the RETINA when accommodation (ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR) is relaxed. This results from an overly curved CORNEA or from the eyeball being too long from front to back. It is also called nearsightedness.Uveitis: Inflammation of part or all of the uvea, the middle (vascular) tunic of the eye, and commonly involving the other tunics (sclera and cornea, and the retina). (Dorland, 27th ed)Eyeglasses: A pair of ophthalmic lenses in a frame or mounting which is supported by the nose and ears. The purpose is to aid or improve vision. It does not include goggles or nonprescription sun glasses for which EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICES is available.Rhodopsin: A purplish-red, light-sensitive pigment found in RETINAL ROD CELLS of most vertebrates. It is a complex consisting of a molecule of ROD OPSIN and a molecule of 11-cis retinal (RETINALDEHYDE). Rhodopsin exhibits peak absorption wavelength at about 500 nm.Oman: A sultanate on the southeast coast of the Arabian peninsula. Its capital is Masqat. Before the 16th century it was ruled by independent emirs but was captured and controlled by the Portuguese 1508-1648. In 1741 it was recovered by a descendent of Yemen's imam. After its decline in the 19th century, it became virtually a political and economic dependency within the British Government of India, retaining close ties with Great Britain by treaty from 1939 to 1970 when it achieved autonomy. The name was recorded by Pliny in the 1st century A.D. as Omana, said to be derived from the founder of the state, Oman ben Ibrahim al-Khalil. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p890; Oman Embassy, Washington; Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)Fundus Oculi: The concave interior of the eye, consisting of the retina, the choroid, the sclera, the optic disk, and blood vessels, seen by means of the ophthalmoscope. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)Vitamin A: Retinol and derivatives of retinol that play an essential role in metabolic functioning of the retina, the growth of and differentiation of epithelial tissue, the growth of bone, reproduction, and the immune response. Dietary vitamin A is derived from a variety of CAROTENOIDS found in plants. It is enriched in the liver, egg yolks, and the fat component of dairy products.Sensory Aids: Devices that help people with impaired sensory responses.Tonga: An archipelago in Polynesia in the southwest Pacific Ocean, comprising about 150 islands. It is a kingdom whose capital is Nukualofa. It was discovered by the Dutch in 1616, visited by Tasman in 1643, and by Captain Cook in 1773 and 1777. The modern kingdom was established during the reign of King George Tupou I, 1845-93. It became a British protectorate in 1900 and gained independence in 1970. The name Tonga may be of local origin, meaning either island or holy. Its other name, Friendly Islands, was given by Captain Cook from the welcome given him by the natives. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1219 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p549)Vision Tests: A series of tests used to assess various functions of the eyes.Onchocerca: A genus of parasitic nematodes whose organisms live and breed in skin and subcutaneous tissues. Onchocercal microfilariae may also be found in the urine, blood, or sputum.World Health: The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world.Health Surveys: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.Field Dependence-Independence: The ability to respond to segments of the perceptual experience rather than to the whole.Sudan: A country in northeastern Africa. The capital is Khartoum.Color Perception Tests: Type of vision test used to determine COLOR VISION DEFECTS.

Sensory perception: supernormal hearing in the blind? (1/1462)

A recent experimental study suggests that blind individuals may compensate for their lack of vision with better-than-normal hearing. This provides support for a view dating back to 18th century philosophers, but the data raise as many problems as they solve.  (+info)

Histologic analysis of photochemical lesions produced in rhesus retina by short-wave-length light. (2/1462)

The photopathology of retinal lesions produced by extended exposure (1000 sec) to low corneal power levels (62 microW) of blue light (441 nm) was investigated by light microscopy in 20 rhesus eyes over an interval ranging from 1 hr to 90 days after exposure. Results indicate a nonthermal type of photochemical lesion originating in the retinal pigment epithelium and leading to a histological response with hypopigmentation which requires 48 hr to appear. This type of lesion helps to explain solar retinitis and eclipse blindness and has significance for aging and degenerative changes in the retina.  (+info)

A new X linked neurodegenerative syndrome with mental retardation, blindness, convulsions, spasticity, mild hypomyelination, and early death maps to the pericentromeric region. (3/1462)

We report on a family with an X linked neurodegenerative disorder consisting of mental retardation, blindness, convulsions, spasticity, and early death. Neuropathological examination showed mild hypomyelination. By linkage analysis, the underlying genetic defect could be assigned to the pericentromeric region of the X chromosome with a maximum lod score of 3.30 at theta=0.0 for the DXS1204 locus with DXS337 and PGK1P1 as flanking markers.  (+info)

Changing trends in barriers to cataract surgery in India. (4/1462)

Cataract is a major cause of blindness in Asia. Efforts in India to provide cataract surgical services have had limited success in reaching the cataract-blind population. Earlier studies identified the major barriers to cataract surgery as poverty, lack of transportation or felt need, or sex related; and the critical barriers in rural areas as lack of awareness, difficult access, and cost. Compared with these earlier data, the results of the present study in Karnataka State indicate a shift in the character of the barriers. They now appear to be more related to case selection and service provision. These shifts are analysed and alternative strategies to increase the uptake to cataract surgery are recommended.  (+info)

Economic burden of blindness in India. (5/1462)

Economic analysis is one way to determine the allocation of scarce resources for health-care programs. The initial step in this process is to estimate in economic terms the burden of diseases and the benefit from interventions for prevention and treatment of these diseases. In this paper, the direct and indirect economic loss due to blindness in India is calculated on the basis of certain assumptions. The cost of treating cataract blindness in India is estimated at current prices. The economic burden of blindness in India for the year 1997 based on our assumptions is Rs. 159 billion (US$ 4.4 billion), and the cumulative loss over lifetime of the blind is Rs. 2,787 billion (US$ 77.4 billion). Childhood blindness accounts for 28.7% of this lifetime loss. The cost of treating all cases of cataract blindness in India is Rs. 5.3 billion (US$ 0.15 billion). Similar estimates for causes of blindness other than cataract have to be made in order to develop a comprehensive approach to deal with blindness in India.  (+info)

No effect of pinealectomy on the parallel shift in circadain rhythms of adrenocortical activity and food intake in blinded rats. (6/1462)

Twenty-four-hr patterns of plasma corticosterone levels were determined at 4-hr intervals every 3-4 weeks in sighted and blinded pinealectomized rats of adult age. Through the whole period of the experiment, 24-hr patterns of food intake were also measured weekly. The sighted rats manifested the same 24-hr patterns of plasma corticosterone levels and food intake for 15 weeks after pinealectomy as those observed in the intact control rats. The magnitude of peak levels of plasma corticosterone and the amount of food intake did not differ between the two groups. A phase shift in circadian rhythms of plasma corticosterone levels and food intake was observed in both groups of blinded rats, with and without pinealectomy. Between the two groups, the patterns of phase shift were essentially similar for 10 weeks examined after optic enucleation. The peak elevation of plasma levels took place at 11 p.m. at the end of the 4th week after optic enucleation. Thereafter, 4- to 8-hr delay of peak appearance was observed every 3 weeks. No significant differences were found in peak values between the two groups of blinded rats. Furthermore, the circadian rhythm of food intake shifted in parallel with that of plasma corticosterone levels. A phase reversal of these two activities was observed between the 8th and 10th week after the operation. These results indicate that the pineal gland does not play any important role either in the maintenance of normal circadian periodicities of adrenocortical activity and food intake or in the shift in circadian rhythms of the two activities in the blinded rats.  (+info)

Elementary visual hallucinations, blindness, and headache in idiopathic occipital epilepsy: differentiation from migraine. (7/1462)

This is a qualitative and chronological analysis of ictal and postictal symptoms, frequency of seizures, family history, response to treatment, and prognosis in nine patients with idiopathic occipital epilepsy and visual seizures. Ictal elementary visual hallucinations are stereotyped for each patient, usually lasting for seconds. They consist of mainly multiple, bright coloured, small circular spots, circles, or balls. Mostly, they appear in a temporal hemifield often moving contralaterally or in the centre where they may be flashing. They may multiply and increase in size in the course of the seizure and may progress to other non-visual occipital seizure symptoms and more rarely to extra-occipital manifestations and convulsions. Blindness occurs usually from the beginning and postictal headache, often indistinguishable from migraine, is common. It is concluded that elementary visual hallucinations in occipital seizures are entirely different from visual aura of migraine when individual elements of colour, shape, size, location, movement, speed of development, duration, and progress are synthesised together. Postictal headache does not show preference for those with a family history of migraine. Most of the patients are misdiagnosed as having migraine with aura, basilar migraine, acephalgic migraine, or migralepsy simply because physicians are not properly informed of differential diagnostic criteria. As a result, treatment may be delayed for years. Response to carbamazepine is excellent and seizures may remit.  (+info)

Developing a model to reduce blindness in India: The International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care. (8/1462)

With the continuing high magnitude of blindness in India, fresh approaches are needed to effectively deal with this burden on society. The International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care (ICARE) has been established at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad to develop such an approach. This paper describes how ICARE functions to meet its objective. The three major functions of ICARE are design and implementation of rural eye-care centres, human resource development for eye care, and community eye-health planning. ICARE works with existing eye-care centres, as well as those being planned, in underserved areas of India and other parts of the developing world. The approach being developed by ICARE, along with its partners, to reduce blindness is that of comprehensive eye care with due emphasis on preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspects. This approach involves the community in which blindness is sought to be reduced by understanding how the people perceive eye health and the barriers to eye care, thereby enabling development of strategies to prevent blindness. Emphasis is placed on providing good-quality eye care with attention to reasonable infrastructure and equipment, developing a resource of adequately trained eye-care professionals of all cadres, developing a professional environment satisfactory for patients as well as eye-care providers, and the concept of good management and financial self-sustainability. Community-based rehabilitation of those with incurable blindness is also part of this approach. ICARE plans to work intensively with its partners and develop these concepts further, thereby effectively bringing into practice the concept of comprehensive eye care for the community in underserved parts of India, and later in other parts of the developing world. In addition, ICARE is involved in assessing the current situation regarding the various aspects of blindness through well-designed epidemiologic studies, and projecting the eye-care needs for the future with the help of reliable information. With balanced attention to infrastructure, manpower, financial self-sustenance, and future planning, ICARE intends to develop a practical model to effectively reduce blindness in India on a long-term basis.  (+info)

The many challenges of childhood blindness | British Journal of OphthalmologyThe many challenges of childhood blindness | British Journal of Ophthalmology
There are an estimated 45 million blind people in the world of whom only 3% are children.1 This dramatic difference in numbers of blind adults compared with children accounts in part for the relatively minor importance that has been attributed to the problem surrounding childhood blindness. Certainly, the well organised advocacy groups for the elderly in many developed countries are not matched by comparable ones for children. The result of this can be seen in the difference in resources made available for health services and research for adult blindness versus childhood blindness. One hopes that, now that the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Agency for Prevention of Blindness have developed a global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness and have included childhood blindness as one of its five key areas, this will change.2 In this issue of theBJO (p 1149) Kocur and co-workers report on the causes of severe visual impairment (visual acuity in the better eye less than 6/60) ...
ORBIS Saving Sight Blindness Prevention Treatment Help The Blind - www.orbis.org.mo - Bread & Biscuit - Food & Beverage -...ORBIS Saving Sight Blindness Prevention Treatment Help The Blind - www.orbis.org.mo - Bread & Biscuit - Food & Beverage -...
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WHO Action Plan for the Prevention of Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment 2009-2013 - IAPBWHO Action Plan for the Prevention of Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment 2009-2013 - IAPB
At the Sixty-first World Health Assembly in 2008, Member States requested that an action plan be developed that would address the eye-health agenda, and complement the existing Action plan for the global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, endorsed in resolution WHA61.14.. The World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat developed a draft action plan for the prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment using an open consultative process, thereby benefiting from the valuable expertise and diverse experience of Member States and international partners.. The draft action plan was endorsed at the 124th session of the Executive Board in January 2009. Subsequently, the Sixty-second World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA62.1 Prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment, endorsing the Action plan for the prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment. Resolution WHA62.1 also builds on previous related Health Assembly ...
San Diego Center for the Blind - Reversing Congenital BlindnessSan Diego Center for the Blind - Reversing Congenital Blindness
Researchers have found a method for reversing congenital blindness in mice. The technique involves changing cells in the retina - called Müller glia - into rod photoreceptors, light-sensitive cells which help people see in low light. The findings of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study appear in the journal Nature ...
Bluetoothing androids to shout at blind people • The RegisterBluetoothing androids to shout at blind people • The Register
American researchers have developed a Bluetooth-based system which would allow blind people to hear information about their immediate surroundings in the same way that others read posters, signs or notices.. The "Talking Points" system was developed at the University of Michigan, and will be presented at international conferences in the UK and Korea next week.. "Talking Points can be viewed as a first step in the direction of an audio virtual reality designed for people with blindness and very useful to the sighted community as well," according to James Knox of the U Mich electrical engineering and computer science department.. The idea is that simple bluetooth beacons, probably in "plugtop" format, could be sold for less than $20. The beacon would have a unique serial number, which would be the only information it transmitted.. The purchaser of a beacon would then be able to log into a website and input information referenced to the beacon number. This could be an advert for a business, a ...
Vision without sight: three tales of inspiring blind people | Lenstore.co.ukVision without sight: three tales of inspiring blind people | Lenstore.co.uk
Adversity faces all of us, but for many people the thought of losing vision, our dominant sense, is a horrifying prospect. Read on to to discover how these three amazing blind people have overcome their disability to achieve amazing things and inspire us all.
Blind people learn to navigate through practice - tribunedigital-chicagotribuneBlind people learn to navigate through practice - tribunedigital-chicagotribune
People think its some kind of magic, said Polly Abbott, director of rehabilitation services at Second Sense, formerly the Guild for the Blind, on how blind people learn to get around on their
Blind people on psychedelics? - The Psychedelic Experience - Shroomery Message BoardBlind people on psychedelics? - The Psychedelic Experience - Shroomery Message Board
I just want to know what blind people may or may not see in their dreams or more interestingly hallucinogens? I mean if they were completely blind from birth and had no concept of colours or anything
Supersonic Stick on the Wrist for Blind People | Yanko DesignSupersonic Stick on the Wrist for Blind People | Yanko Design
It is very rare that I use the title of the project as the title of the post, but this one is just too magically perfect not to do that. This project goes by the incredibly long name "Supersonic Stick on the Wrist for Blind People" and it rocks. It uses "supersonic signals" aka sonar to both send out signals and receive them when they bounce back, giving then warning to the user of oncoming danger through sounds and vibrations.. The beauty in this project lies in the simplicity. Think first of being able to see everything around you. Then think about not being able to see anything. Then think about how wonderful it would be to have an object so simple it can fit in your hand give you another sense to replace the one you lost. Not quite as good as eyes, but its certainly something.. Designer: Minhye Kim. ...
Haptic Reader Helps Blind People Reading Non-Braille Books - TuvieHaptic Reader Helps Blind People Reading Non-Braille Books - Tuvie
Haptic Reader is a concept device that features an innovative way of helping blind people on reading non-Braille books. This device incorporates a flat glass
Do Blind People Have Heightened Senses? - Albinism Up CloseDo Blind People Have Heightened Senses? - Albinism Up Close
Here I answer a question Ive seen asked numerous times. Do blind people have heightened senses? What happens when one sense is lost or weak?
Midlands town hazardous for blind people | Central - ITV NewsMidlands town hazardous for blind people | Central - ITV News
Read the latest Central stories, Midlands town hazardous for blind people on ITV News, videos, stories and all the latest Central news
Public Transport Information System for Visually Impaired and Blind People | SpringerLinkPublic Transport Information System for Visually Impaired and Blind People | SpringerLink
This paper presents an assistive system for the visually impaired and blind people which helps them using public transport means. The proposed system uses mobile phones as a medium for passenger infor
Causes of childhood blindness in the Peoples Republic of China: results from 1131 blind school students in 18 provinces |...Causes of childhood blindness in the People's Republic of China: results from 1131 blind school students in 18 provinces |...
AIMS To determine the anatomical site and underlying causes of blindness and severe visual impairment in children under 16 years of age in special education in the Peoples Republic of China with a view to determining potentially preventable and treatable causes.. METHODS A national study of children attending schools for the blind in China was conducted between April and June 1998 using the WHO Prevention of Blindness Programme (WHO/PBL) eye examination record for children with blindness and low vision. Eight Chinese ophthalmologists attended a training workshop before conducting the study. 36 blind schools in 18 provinces of China were included.. RESULTS 1245 children aged between 5 and 15 years were examined, of whom 1131 (91%) were blind or severely visually impaired (visual acuity less than 6/60 in the better eye). The commonest anatomical sites of visual loss were whole globe (mainly microphthalmos) 25.5% and retina (mainly dystrophies) 24.9%. Lens was the major site in 18.8%, optic nerve ...
Avoidable Blindness Set to Increase in Future -..."Avoidable Blindness" Set to Increase in Future -...
On World Sight Day, eye care organisations around the world take note of new data that shows that global eye care efforts are at serious risk of being overwhelmed-unless we act now. New data published in the Lancet Global Health shows that decades of declining "avoidable blindness"-those with uncorrected refractive errors and cataract-is plateauing, and is projected to increase between 2015 and 2050.. The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), an international alliance of eye care organisations, has launched the "IAPB Vision Atlas" with the latest global data and evidence on blindness and vision impairment this World Sight Day (12 October 2017).. A new paper by the Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) published yesterday in the Lancet Global Health identifies the leading causes of Blindness and Moderate and Severe Vision Impairment (MSVI) in 2015. Of the 253 million people who are blind or MSVI, uncorrected refractive errors (123.8 million people) and cataract (65.2 million) are ...
Community Eye Health Journal » WHO childhood blindness softwareCommunity Eye Health Journal » WHO childhood blindness software
The WHO childhood blindness software analyses eye examination records for children with blindness and low vision. The eye examination record records causes of visual loss amongst children in blind school and hospital based studies. It can also be used in population based surveys to record causes of visual loss and blindness in children. Note: This…
Frontiers | Enhanced Functional Coupling of Hippocampal Sub-regions in Congenitally and Late Blind Subjects | NeuroscienceFrontiers | Enhanced Functional Coupling of Hippocampal Sub-regions in Congenitally and Late Blind Subjects | Neuroscience
The hippocampus has exhibited navigation-related changes in volume and activity after visual deprivation; however, the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) changes of the hippocampus in the blind remains unknown. In this study, we focused on sub-region-specific rsFC changes of the hippocampus and their association with the onset age of blindness. The rsFC patterns of the hippocampal sub-regions (head, body and tail) were compared among 20 congenitally blind (CB), 42 late blind (LB), and 50 sighted controls (SC). Compared with the SC, both the CB and the LB showed increased hippocampal rsFCs with the posterior cingulate cortex, angular gyrus, parieto-occpital sulcus, middle occipito-temporal conjunction, inferior temporal gyrus, orbital frontal cortex, and middle frontal gyrus. In the blind subjects, the hippocampal tail had more extensive rsFC changes than the anterior hippocampus (body and head). The CB and the LB had similar changes in hippocampal rsFC. These altered rsFCs of the hippocampal
medical science - Can we solve most blindness by cadaver donation? - Skeptics Stack Exchangemedical science - Can we solve most blindness by cadaver donation? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Diseases affecting the cornea are a major cause of blindness worldwide, second only to cataract in overall importance. The epidemiology of corneal blindness is complicated and encompasses a wide variety of infectious and inflammatory eye diseases that cause corneal scarring, which ultimately leads to functional blindness. In addition, the prevalence of corneal disease varies from country to country and even from one population to another. While cataract is responsible for nearly 20 million of the 45 million blind people in the world, the next major cause is trachoma which blinds 4.9 million individuals, mainly as a result of corneal scarring and vascularization. Ocular trauma and corneal ulceration are significant causes of corneal blindness that are often underreported but may be responsible for 1.5-2.0 million new cases of monocular blindness every year.. ...
Epidemiology of blindness in children | Archives of Disease in ChildhoodEpidemiology of blindness in children | Archives of Disease in Childhood
An estimated 14 million of the worlds children are blind. A blind child is more likely to live in socioeconomic deprivation, to be more frequently hospitalised during childhood and to die in childhood than a child not living with blindness. This update of a previous review on childhood visual impairment focuses on emerging therapies for children with severe visual disability (severe visual impairment and blindness or SVI/BL).. For children in higher income countries, cerebral visual impairment and optic nerve anomalies remain the most common causes of SVI/BL, while retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and cataract are now the most common avoidable causes. The constellation of causes of childhood blindness in lower income settings is shifting from infective and nutritional corneal opacities and congenital anomalies to more resemble the patterns seen in higher income settings. Improvements in maternal and neonatal health and investment in and maintenance of national ophthalmic care infrastructure are ...
Petition · Join the Campaign to End Blindness · Change.orgPetition · Join the Campaign to End Blindness · Change.org
More than 40 million people in the developing world cant see their children, parents, and friends because they are blind, yet most blindness can be prevented or cured with inexpensive medicine or operations. With our partners we have the medicines and medical know-how to give millions of people the gift of sight. But do you and I have the will?. Many cures for blindness are tragically simple. Trachoma infection causes horrible pain, scarring and eventually blindness… and it affects millions of children around the world. But a simple $8 operation can fix these problems, sparing a child years of infections resulting in a lifetime time in the dark. Cataract surgery, to replace the eyes cloudy lens and restore sight, costs $28 for an adult, $121 for a child.. We have the power to stop the tragedy of needless blindness by urging the international community to increase assistance for medicine and medical care that can cure or prevent blindness, and by creating opportunities for blind people who ...
Nigeria national blindness and visual impairment survey - ICEH newNigeria national blindness and visual impairment survey - ICEH new
Nigeria is among the ten most populated countries in the world. Despite its size there had been no earlier national estimate of the prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment before the Nigeria national blindness and visual impairment survey was conducted between 2005 and 2007. Six collaborating institutions took part and ICEH provided technical guidance for the survey design, provision of training, external supervision of the survey activities, data analysis and report writing.. As a result, for the first time scientifically valid data are available for the entire country providing the epidemiological evidence and data needed for eye care planning, priority setting, advocacy and for measuring the impact of service delivery in Nigeria. The data also contribute towards the global database of blindness, which is being used for global planning, advocacy, resource mobilisation and to monitor VISION 2020 initiatives.. ...
Artificial retina implant brings hope to blind people - Volume 5 Issue 5: Disability News and Information Service for IndiaArtificial retina implant brings hope to blind people - Volume 5 Issue 5: Disability News and Information Service for India
D.N.I.S. News Network U.S. Researchers recently revealed that a tiny electrical implant that attaches to the retina may some day restore partial sight to millions of people who lose sight by age-related macular degeneration.. At the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Fransisco, the researchers stated that the device is part of a new class of smart prostheses that link with the brain and nervous system to restore function lost to disease or injury. The artificial retina is designed to take the place of photoreceptor cells in the brain that are charged with capturing and processing light. Professor of Ophtalmology at the University of Southern California Dr. Mark Humayun said, We anticipate this technology will help blind patients who have lost their sight through macular degeneration. Dr. Humayun and is colleagues have joined hands with the privately held Second Sight Medical Products to develop the implant, which has just got clearance from U.S. ...
6 Things You Can Do To Prevent Avoidable Blindness - How Nigeria News6 Things You Can Do To Prevent Avoidable Blindness - How Nigeria News
According to the International Classification of Diseases - 10 (ICD-10), four levels of visual function have been described viz normal vision, moderate visual impairment, severe visual impairment and lastly blindness. Hence, blindness represents the worst case scenario in the spectrum of visual function. Moderate and severe visual impairment are collectively referred to as Low Vision whereas blindness essentially refers to a complete loss of vision.. In the light of the enormous burden of visual impairment especially in the developing countries, the World Health Assembly under the aegis of the World Health Organization instituted an action plan to facilitate universal access to eye health. The aim was to achieve at least 25% reduction in the number of cases of preventable visual impairment by 2019 ...
Developments in cataract surgery: past, present and future | Points de Vue | International Review of Ophthalmic OpticsDevelopments in cataract surgery: past, present and future | Points de Vue | International Review of Ophthalmic Optics
In spite of amazing technical progress, cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness in the world, affecting almost half (45%) of the 40 to 45 million blind people worldwide according to the WHO, this number increases to 180 million when people with «visual deficiency» are included [9, 10].. Evidently, cataracts pertain to the 80% of cases of blindness that are considered avoidable and, in developed countries, they are no longer a major cause of irreversible blindness. Nowadays, for example, cataracts are considered to be the principal pathology in not much more than 2% of the affiliates of ONCE (Spanish National Organization for the blind [11]). In spite of this, demographic growth and increase in life expectancy, growing more rapidly than the availability of modern surgical treatment in vast areas of the world, will cause cataracts to contribute considerably to the increase of the total number of blind people in the world, the number of whom is estimated to reach 100 million by about 2020 ...
Neuroplasticity in Blind Subjects After Repetitive Tactile Stimulation - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.govNeuroplasticity in Blind Subjects After Repetitive Tactile Stimulation - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov
The investigators will use passive repetitive tactile stimulation over a period of 3 months, one hour a day for five days a week, with vertical, horizontal and oblique lines generated randomly by a tactile stimulator. Our aim is (a) to study if repetitive tactile stimulation can create cross-modality and improve recognition and localization of patterns in blind people, (b) to evaluate the impact of this training on brain activity the investigators performed high-density scalp EEG recording during the initial stimulation session and in the last one. And (c) measure the functional connectivity of the brain with resting state MRI pre and post training. The resting state MRI protocol consist on one run of T1WI and three bold runs (TE=30ms,TR=3000ms, flip angle 90º,voxel size 3mm, 124 time points, 0 gap).. Cross-modality sensory stimulation may offer a good opportunity to improve recognition, localization and navigation in blind people. Although the neural substrate of this multimodality integration ...
A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITSA LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS
Thank you to everyone here from the NFB and the NOPBC. Im excited to share with everyone about my career and my experiences getting to where I am now. I work in a cognitive neuroscience lab. That means that we study how the brain functions. Specifically, were interested in mental processes. Were looking at how blind people use parts of the brain that ordinarily handle vision. We want to learn what those areas typically devoted to vision are doing instead in people who are blind. I want to give you some background on how I got to this position. Ive been a science geek for as long as I can remember. We talk about there being no limits. Although I grew up blind, the idea was never planted in my head that there could be limits in the first place. My parents simply expected that if all the sighted kids were doing something, Id be doing it, too. One of the myths out there is that blind people cant do science, that you need sight to pursue a scientific career. I cant think of anything that is ...
Blindness (novel) - WikipediaBlindness (novel) - Wikipedia
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers on "the doctors wife," her husband, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. After lengthy and traumatic quarantine in an asylum, the group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the unexplained good fortune that the doctors wife has escaped the blindness. The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures. The first part of the novel follows the experiences of the central characters in the filthy, overcrowded asylum where they and other blind people have ...
Freds Head from APH, a Blindness Blog: 10/01/2011 - 11/01/2011Fred's Head from APH, a Blindness Blog: 10/01/2011 - 11/01/2011
by Donna J. Jodhan Would it be fair to say that in general, the blind community could be one of the most misunderstood groups? If so, then why? Could it be that we are misunderstood because maybe and just maybe, the mainstream society has probably not taken enough time to get to know us? Or maybe is it because that they have not been exposed to our world enough? I guess that we could probably offer several explanations for this but at the end of the day, this is the situation. As for my humble opinion, I offer these possibilities: I believe that when it comes to blind people in general, most of our mainstream society have somehow managed to erect artificial barriers towards us. These would include attitude, perception, and belief. Let us first look at attitude. There seems to exist an attitude from many mainstream people that blind people should probably be viewed as not being fully able to be contributors to society. In short, we may be viewed more as people who need to be helped rather than as ...
Media dis&dat: Blind people will lose £30 per week under new benefit regime, British blindness group saysMedia dis&dat: Blind people will lose £30 per week under new benefit regime, British blindness group says
I am full-time Mass Communication faculty at Towson University in Maryland and adjunct faculty in the City University of New York (CUNY) Masters in Disability Studies program. I research media and disability issues and wrote a 2010 book on the subject: Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media, published by Advocado Press. The media have real power to define what the public knows about disability and thats what I research ...
Halfbakery: Swimming Eye SquidHalfbakery: Swimming Eye Squid
There are many blind people who can swim perfectly well, and would enjoy swimming around independently in the open sea, but obviously this presents many hazards, but only for those who dont yet have the use of a Swimming Eye Squid.. Some squid have an extremely well developed single eye, with extraordinary vision, matched by an intelligence that makes them the perfect underwater assistant for people with limited or no vision. Following an appropriate period of training, Swimming Eye Squid will become the best underwater friend for a suitable blind person. Wearing an appropriate harness, they will gently lead their companion on a pleasurable aquatic adventure in total safety.. Under development: Seeing Eye Giraffe for ridiculously tall blind people ...
Community Eye Health Journal » The global initiative - VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. Childhood blindnessCommunity Eye Health Journal » The global initiative - VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. Childhood blindness
Blindness in children worldwide Apart from cataract, trachoma and onchocerciasis, which are specific diseases, the Global Initiative has also targeted childhood blindness - blindness from any cause occurring in a person aged 15 or less. Why is this relatively uncommon problem such a high priority? Corneal scarring after vitamin A deficiency. © John DC Anderson…
Peru Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness 2011-2012 | GHDxPeru Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness 2011-2012 | GHDx
The Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) is a rapid survey methodology developed at the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH). It is a population based survey of visual impairment and eye care services among people aged 50 years and over.. ...
Expanding Horizons: One Mans Experience With Choices | Alliance for Equality of Blind CanadiansExpanding Horizons: One Man's Experience With Choices | Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians
in the field can understand. This model of blindness is expressed through heartfelt concerns about security and safety, and even by enforced custody and care. Clients of agencies holding this view of blindness will generally be passive, minimally involved in training and marginally employed, often in a sheltered setting; and regardless of how many services they receive, they will usually be seen to need even more.. The second view for blindness is in the minority, but it is the one we do our best to apply at the Colorado Center for the Blind. We consider blindness to be a physical characteristic and little more. Its problems, for the most part, are rooted in social attitudes each of us has internalized to such an extent that the problems attributed to blindness seem real. Since blind people are already using safe and effective methods of daily living, independent travel and communication, we think the problems of blindness are best addressed through an active program of individual skills ...
Penn Study Sheds Light On The Complexity Of Gene Therapy For Congenital Blindness - Macula Vision Research FoundationPenn Study Sheds Light On The Complexity Of Gene Therapy For Congenital Blindness - Macula Vision Research Foundation
The information presented is neither medical advice nor suggestions regarding your condition. All information is intended for your general knowledge only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment. Please discuss any medical questions or concerns with an ophthalmologist or retinal specialist. Click to read our Privacy Policy. ...
Alton Brown - The Dieline | Packaging & Branding Design & Innovation NewsAlton Brown - The Dieline | Packaging & Branding Design & Innovation News
Jageland Hampus, a Swedish designer, has developed a spice range targeted towards the visually impaired: I decided to create an identity, packaging, and product design, which is suitable for blind people as well as visually impaired. Blind people cook just as much as people who are visually able, but to make it easier for them, they use a number of different methods including placing text in Braille on all of their products. The identity logo I designed for the ingredient range is made out of the Braille representation of the letters a and b. Consequently, by only using the elements that is building up the regular letters a and b, Hampus communicated the name of the ingredient range in a strong and simplistic way, which both can be read by blind and visual able.
blind peoples dreams and lucid dreaming - Message Boards - American Foundation for the Blindblind peoples dreams and lucid dreaming - Message Boards - American Foundation for the Blind
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) removes barriers, creates solutions, and expands possibilities so people with vision loss can achieve their full potential. As a national nonprofit with offices in five US cities, AFB is a leader in expanding possibilities for the more than 20 million Americans living with vision loss. We champion access and equality, and stand at the forefront of new technologies. Like Helen Keller, AFBs most famous ambassador, we are committed to creating a more equitable world for people with disabilities. From infancy to education, career, and retirement, AFB is there to help at every stage of life.
Blindness - José Saramago - Farm Lane Books BlogBlindness - José Saramago - Farm Lane Books Blog
Translated from the Portugese by Giovanni Pontiero. Blindness is the most powerful book I have ever read. From the beginning, to the end my adrenaline levels were high, and my heart was beating so fast youd have thought Id been out running!. Blindness is a terrifying account of what could happen to us, if we were all to lose our sight. The book begins with one man suddenly losing his vision while waitng at traffic lights in his car. Someone offers to help the blind man back home, and it isnt long before he becomes blind too. It quickly becomes obvious that the blindness is highly contagious, and so all the blind people, and those who have been in close contact with them, are rounded up and sent to an old mental hospital. Trapped in this old building, with an increasing number of people, conditions quickly deteriorate. Fights break out over the small amount of food, sanitation becomes almost non-existent, and it isnt long before people are dying.. There is one woman who has not gone blind; ...
Blindness - José Saramago - Farm Lane Books BlogBlindness - José Saramago - Farm Lane Books Blog
Translated from the Portugese by Giovanni Pontiero. Blindness is the most powerful book I have ever read. From the beginning, to the end my adrenaline levels were high, and my heart was beating so fast youd have thought Id been out running!. Blindness is a terrifying account of what could happen to us, if we were all to lose our sight. The book begins with one man suddenly losing his vision while waitng at traffic lights in his car. Someone offers to help the blind man back home, and it isnt long before he becomes blind too. It quickly becomes obvious that the blindness is highly contagious, and so all the blind people, and those who have been in close contact with them, are rounded up and sent to an old mental hospital. Trapped in this old building, with an increasing number of people, conditions quickly deteriorate. Fights break out over the small amount of food, sanitation becomes almost non-existent, and it isnt long before people are dying.. There is one woman who has not gone blind; ...
Blindness - Sajun.orgBlindness - Sajun.org
Blindness can be defined physiologically as the condition of lacking sight. The definition as it applies to people thus legally classified is, however, more complex. The term "blindness" also applies to partial visual impairment: In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as vision of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with correction. People with normal acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees - the norm being 180 degrees - are also classified as being legally blind. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines legal blindness as vision of 20/400 (3/60) or less in the better eye with correction. They also accept people with a visual field of less than 10 degrees under that heading. Approximately ten percent of those classified as being legally blind are actually sightless. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity. ...
History - SEE InternationalHistory - SEE International
RESTORING SIGHT WORLDWIDE SINCE 1974. Founded in 1974, the staff, board and volunteers of SEE International are dedicated to restoring sight to blind people worldwide.. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, SEE International effectively links doctors willing to share their time and expertise with impoverished individuals in critical need of sight-restoring surgery in developing countries. Nearly 90% of blind people live in developing countries, where SEE International focuses the majority of its work. Over the last four decades, SEE International has screened approximately 3.6 million individuals and completed more than 440,000 surgeries worldwide through a generous global volunteer network of more than 650 ophthalmic surgeons, registered nurses, and technicians.. In addition to its international work, SEE International is dedicated to serving its local community. In the mid-1980s, the Santa Barbara Vision Care Program was created to address the need for free comprehensive eye care with ...
The brain on sonar - how blind people find their way around with echoes - Not Exactly Rocket Science : Not Exactly Rocket...The brain on sonar - how blind people find their way around with echoes - Not Exactly Rocket Science : Not Exactly Rocket...
Daniel Kish has no eyes. He lost them to cancer at just 13 months of age, but you wouldnt be able to tell from watching him. The 44-year-old happily walks round cities, goes for hikes, rides mountain bikes, plays basketball, and teaches other blind youngsters to do the same. Brian Bushway helps him. Now 28 years old, Bushway lost his vision at 14, when his optic nerves wasted away. But, like Kish, he finds his way around with an ease that belies his disability.. Both Kish and Bushway have learned to use sonar. By making clicks with their tongue and listening to the rebounding echoes, they can "see" the world in sound, in the same way that dolphins and bats can. They are not alone. A small but growing number of people can also "echolocate". Some develop the skill late in life, like Bushway; others come to it early, like Kish. Some use props like canes to produce the echoes; others, just click with their tongues.. The echoes are loaded with information, not just about the position of objects, but ...
10 Happy Facts To Make You Smile Throughout the Day10 Happy Facts To Make You Smile Throughout the Day
Research suggests that common facial expressions - expressing things like happiness, sadness, disappointment, and achievement - may be innate, not learned. When researchers studied blind and sighted athletes, they found that both displayed similar facial expressions when they lost or won a competition. Winners sported the grin of a happy person, while losers looked sad or disgusted.. The study showed that it doesnt matter if someone had been born blind or not. Everyone makes similar faces while smiling. Because of those similarities, the researchers concluded that the universal emotional expressions that they saw may trace back through evolution: "and that all humans, regardless of gender or culture, are born with this ability.". Award-winning film director, Lucy Walker, who had worked with a blind cast for film once said about blind people: "Even if they cant see a face, blind people are very aware of the feeling that smiling gives them, and they are often able to pick up when someone is ...
Medical Xpress - blind peopleMedical Xpress - blind people
Medical Xpress is a web-based medical and health news service that features the most comprehensive coverage in the fields of neuroscience, cardiology, cancer, HIV/AIDS, psychology, psychiatry, dentistry, genetics, diseases and conditions, medications and more.
Samsung Releasing Smartphone-Paired Technologies for Blind People | MedgadgetSamsung Releasing Smartphone-Paired Technologies for Blind People | Medgadget
Todays smartphones have a surprising amount of technology built into them to help people do all sorts of things that were otherwise impossible not so long
Phys.org - blind peoplePhys.org - blind people
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Blindness and vision impairment : Bionic Vision AustraliaBlindness and vision impairment : Bionic Vision Australia
Globally, over one and a half million people have progressive vision loss as a result of retinitis pigmentosa, the primary cause of inherited blindness.. In Australia, over 50,000 people suffer from profound blindness. Age-related macular degeneration affects people over the age of 65 and is responsible for almost half of all legal blindness in Australia.. The financial cost of profound vision loss is significant - in Australia alone it has been estimated at upwards of $2.5 billion, annually.. We are committed to developing vision prostheses to help ease the burden of profound blindness in patients with the two most common conditions to cause profound blindness - age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa ...
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Normal vision, or 20/20, means a person sees the smallest letters or pictures on an eye chart when standing 20 feet away from the chart. Some people cannot see normally, even with glasses or contacts, because a medical condition affects their vision. These people are called visually impaired or visually handicapped.. If a visual handicap limits vision to 20/200, or one-tenth of normal, a person is legally blind. Legally blind does not mean totally unable to see. Someone legally blind cannot see the line below the second big E at the top of the eye chart. People with 20/20 vision but less than 20 degrees of side vision can also qualify as legally blind. People who see well with only one eye are not considered legally blind, nor are people who wear glasses to see better than 20/200.. Most legally blind people function quite well, especially if they have been visually handicapped since childhood. Older children and adults with visual handicaps may need magnifying lenses for reading and telescopes ...
Donations for The Blind, Blindness Support ServicesDonations for The Blind, Blindness Support Services
In our efforts to promote the independence and self-reliance of individuals who are blind and visually impaired, Blindness Support Services would like your support. Blindness Support Services is a non-profit agency that provides services for the blind in Riverside and San Bernardino counties in Southern California.. Salvador Novella graduated our program and is now employed. Below are some words that Salvador Novella would like to share with you.. "I am a graduate of Blindness Support Services and I want to thank all the wonderful staff and especially all my instructors. I started school about two years ago with a disability of blindness at the age of sixty. I had to relearn a new way of life and it sounded impossible for this old man. But I was determined and two years later I have learned more skills in mobility, independent living, 3 books of braille training. I am especially thankful for my Assistive Technology training with the Jaws Screen Reader, iPhone 6, iPad, and the Victor-Reader. ...
Visual impairment - WikipediaVisual impairment - Wikipedia
Many people with serious visual impairments can travel independently, using a wide range of tools and techniques. Orientation and mobility specialists are professionals who are specifically trained to teach people with visual impairments how to travel safely, confidently, and independently in the home and the community. These professionals can also help blind people to practice travelling on specific routes which they may use often, such as the route from ones house to a convenience store. Becoming familiar with an environment or route can make it much easier for a blind person to navigate successfully. Tools such as the white cane with a red tip - the international symbol of blindness - may also be used to improve mobility. A long cane is used to extend the users range of touch sensation. It is usually swung in a low sweeping motion, across the intended path of travel, to detect obstacles. However, techniques for cane travel can vary depending on the user and/or the situation. Some visually ...
Human Exceptionality: Low Vision and Blindness by Hillary Lovenduski on PreziHuman Exceptionality: Low Vision and Blindness by Hillary Lovenduski on Prezi
Influencing partners across the world to make computers, television, mobile phones and satellite navigation systems easier. Q: How does the facility measure success? A: The RNIB measures success in how many people they can help with vision impairment. They are one of the largest organizations for blindness in the UK. Q: What type of assistive technology is available or do they use adaptive equipment? A: The RNIB in 1935 was the first to offer talking books to the blind and vision impaired. Now years later, the RNIB continues to offer these new and improved talking books for sale and for rental to its members. *Movie Topic: Ray Q: What was the location and time period of the movie? A: Albany, Georgia during the 1930-1970 Q: What is the name and description/definition of the disability portrayed? A: Blindness- Legally blind indicates that a person has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye or a very limited field of vision (20 degrees at its widest point); Totally blind people cannot see at ...
Retina stories at Techdirt.Retina stories at Techdirt.
An estimated 285 million people (worldwide) have some blindness or visual impairment. About 43% of those visually impaired around the world are people who need glasses but dont have them. However, there are obviously blind people who have more severe vision problems that are more technologically difficult to fix. Some kids with blindness are learning how to echolocate nowadays, but thats a skill that gets harder to learn as a person ages. Here are just a few other ways that might restore vision to people someday. ...
The Nigerian national blindness and visual impairment survey: Rationale, objectives and detailed methodology | BMC...The Nigerian national blindness and visual impairment survey: Rationale, objectives and detailed methodology | BMC...
Despite having the largest population in Africa, Nigeria has no accurate population based data to plan and evaluate eye care services. A national survey was undertaken to estimate the prevalence and determine the major causes of blindness and low vision. This paper presents the detailed methodology used during the survey. A nationally representative sample of persons aged 40 years and above was selected. Children aged 10-15 years and individuals aged |10 or 16-39 years with visual impairment were also included if they lived in households with an eligible adult. All participants had their height, weight, and blood pressure measured followed by assessment of presenting visual acuity, refractokeratomery, A-scan ultrasonography, visual fields and best corrected visual acuity. Anterior and posterior segments of each eye were examined with a torch and direct ophthalmoscope. Participants with visual acuity of | = 6/12 in one or both eyes underwent detailed examination including applanation tonometry, dilated
Blindness prevention stimulus package for India announced | Vision 2020 AustraliaBlindness prevention stimulus package for India announced | Vision 2020 Australia
Vision 2020 Australia is committed to working with member organisations across Australia to improve eye health and vision care outcomes.
Blindness Prevention | News | Vision 2020 AustraliaBlindness Prevention | News | Vision 2020 Australia
Vision 2020 Australia is committed to working with member organisations across Australia to improve eye health and vision care outcomes.
Does Diabetes Cause Blindness - Back To Basics Endocrinology Diabetes Obesity Metabolic Ppt | Www.velkommen.orgDoes Diabetes Cause Blindness - Back To Basics Endocrinology Diabetes Obesity Metabolic Ppt | Www.velkommen.org
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Blindness prevention campaign | Communications | Rédaction de contenu | Révision | Conception graphiqueBlindness prevention campaign | Communications | Rédaction de contenu | Révision | Conception graphique
Conception graphique & Rédaction de contenu Projects for $10 - $30. i am working as a volunteer in a program of diabetic retinopathy screening and we want to create a document to be printed to promote among patients with diabetes the use of a retinal camera to prevent...
Embracing My Sons Blindness - Words For JustinEmbracing My Son's Blindness - Words For Justin
Parents, and caregivers of our blind children; you will need a lot of support and resources to help you along this journey. I totally understand your need to want answers as to how to seek help and the importance of knowing what lies ahead for your child. It is absolutely imperative to find the support you need; as well as learning all that you can about your childs disability and education. I know that at first this will all seem overwhelming, but it is extremely helpful to communicate with parents that are raising a blind child.. When Justin was an infant, I would often ask other parents of sighted children how long would it take for my son to sleep all night? The responses that I would receive were, "give it six months and he will soon be sleeping without awakening in the middle of the night." I waited for the six months and still Justin would not sleep as I was told he would. At the time of asking the other parents about the sleep, I wasnt aware that blind childrens sleep patterns are ...
Healing Blindness | The New Church in AustraliaHealing Blindness | The New Church in Australia
A Sermon by Rev. Brian W. Keith. Blindness is a terrible affliction. Imagine not being able to see the incredible array of colors, especially when fall is drawing near. Imagine not being able to read a map or see the beauties brought to us through the lenses of cameras. And imagine not being able to see a child ride his bike or a friend smile. While a heightening of the other senses can enable someone to manage without sight, a wonderful element is thereby removed from life, and the person is surrounded with a shroud of darkness.. While natural blindness is certainly a frustrating and painful condition, it merely reflects the kind of problems where there is spiritual blindness in our lives. Spiritual blindness causes us to flail around in our lives, not really knowing or being certain of what we ought to do or what kind of person we can become.. Spiritual blindness exists wherever there is ignorance. Where someone lacks a knowledge of who the Lord really is, of the process of regeneration, and ...
Notes on BlindnessNotes on Blindness
After losing his sight, John Hull knew that if he did not try to understand blindness it would destroy him. In 1983 he began keeping an audio diary. Over three years John recorded over sixteen hours of material, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Published in 1990, the diaries were described by author and neurologist Oliver Sacks as, A masterpiece… The most precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read.. An innovative and emotionally engaging film, the film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize at the 59th San Francisco Film Festival. The brilliant virtual reality supplement to this film, Notes on Blindness - Into Darkness, based on Johns sensory and psychological experience of blindness, will be on view in The Brandon at Brasil November 11-13.. Peter Middleton and James Spinney have made a miraculous piece of work that combines lip-synced recreations of Hulls verbal ...
Blindness Review | English CompositionBlindness Review | English Composition
A3 Blindness Review Blindness By Jose Saramago Reviewed by Maisem Jaloudi Blindness strikes a man while he is at a cross light. Suddenly he can no longer see. A white blindness saturates his sight. There is no explanation for his blindness. His eyesight was perfectly fine moments before while he was waiting for the light…
Yorkshire Voice - How blindness made me see: The trials and travels of Amar LatifYorkshire Voice - How blindness made me see: The trials and travels of Amar Latif
Amar became blind at the age of 18, but through positive thinking and ambition he has channelled his passion for adventure into an extensive career.. He said: "I woke up one morning and couldnt see the poster at the end of my bed. The reality was that my life was going to change.. "After moping around for weeks, I decided Im going to show this blindness thing that its not going to top me. Im going to take the world on.". Take on the world he certainly did. Amir was discovered by TV bosses running his own company Traveleyes, in which he takes groups of blind people on adventures around the world.. In 2005 he took part in the BBC documentary series Beyond Boundaries, in which he and a group of other disabled people spent one month trekking across Nicaragua, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.. He said: "Not only was I a blind guy, I was now a blind guy pushing a guy through mud in a wheelchair in the jungle.. "It wasnt about fitness anymore, it was about mental resilience.". Whether ...
Larry Campbell SpeaksLarry Campbell Speaks
... at the memorial service.. Lawrence F. Campbell. From the Editor: Larry Campbell is Vice President of the International Council for the Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI). He works from the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The following were his remarks at the memorial service:. It is an honor to have the opportunity to say a few words today on behalf of the thousands of educators of blind children throughout the world who are members of ICEVI. As word of Dr. Jernigans death spread throughout the world, my telephone rang off the hook, and my e-mail basket was full all asking the same question: what can we do to express our feelings about this great leader who so influenced thinking, not only here in the U.S. but in some of the remotest regions of the world, where equality for blind people is, in many cases, still a dream?. As I began to think about what I might say this afternoon, many fond memories of my nearly twenty years of ...
HEALTH Portation curated news: NEWS - Rates of blindness and partial sight have plummeted in developed worldHEALTH Portation curated news: NEWS - Rates of blindness and partial sight have plummeted in developed world
Rates of blindness and impaired eyesight have plummeted over the past 20 years in the developed world. But macular degeneration has replaced cataract as the leading cause of blindness in rich countries, reveals an analysis of the available evidence published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology .... http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-partial-sight-plummeted-world.ht. ...
Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness: Editors Page<...Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness: Editor's Page<...
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Freds Head from APH, a Blindness Blog: Mosquito Repeller NecklaceFred's Head from APH, a Blindness Blog: Mosquito Repeller Necklace
Are you allergic to mosquito bites? Even if youre not, how are blind people supposed to swat these things? Its difficult for sighted folks to hit those little flying targets! Talk about annoying! With the Mosquito Repeller Necklace you dont have to worry about improving your target practice. No need to wear harmful chemicals and toxic sprays either. The mosquito beater is a battery-operated necklace that transmits a sonic repelling frequency that drives bugs crazy! The plastic case is compact enough (1" x 2") to wear around your neck (cord included) or clip to your collar. Effective up to 10 ft. The unit has an on-off switch, and the batteries are included ...
Avoidable blindness | Light for the WorldAvoidable blindness | Light for the World
About 80 percent of blindness is preventable. For many years now, LIGHT FOR THE WORLD has been working to reduce blindness that could be avoided.
Teacher Training Album, Blindness Support ServicesTeacher Training Album, Blindness Support Services
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Norries disease | Article about Norries disease by The Free DictionaryNorrie's disease | Article about Norrie's disease by The Free Dictionary
Looking for Norrie's disease? Find out information about Norrie's disease. impairment of the normal state or functioning of the body as a whole or of any of its parts. Some diseases are acute, producing severe symptoms that... Explanation of Norrie's disease
Recreation and leisure activities for people who are blind or visually impaired | Perkins eLearningRecreation and leisure activities for people who are blind or visually impaired | Perkins eLearning
Recreation and leisure activities for people who are blind or visually impaired, including playground suggestions for children who are blind
Frontiers | Preoperative Visual Loss is the Main Cause of Irreversible Poor Vision in Children with a Brain Tumor | NeurologyFrontiers | Preoperative Visual Loss is the Main Cause of Irreversible Poor Vision in Children with a Brain Tumor | Neurology
To characterize the severe postoperative irreversible visual loss induced by optic neuropathy in some children with a brain tumor, the computerized database (2003-2008) of a neuro-ophthalmology service of a major pediatric tertiary center was reviewed for all children with severe irreversible visual loss (counting fingers or less) due to brain-tumor-related optic neuropathy at their last follow-up examination. Data on age, gender, etiology, initial symptoms and signs, visual acuity before and after surgery and at last exam, neuroimaging findings, and treatment were collected. Of 240 children, 198 were operated. Of those, 10 (5%, 5 boys and 5 girls) met the study criteria. Data for the initial visual examination were available for 8 children: one had binocular blindness (uncertain light perception, counting fingers); 3 had monocular blindness already at diagnosis (no light perception, counting fingers, no fixation); 3 had 6/60 vision in the worse eye; and one had good vision bilaterally (6/10). Four
Prophage: Gene Therapy for Hemophilia, Blindness, and Cancer, and the Tools That Make it Possible at the HMGS 2014 SymposiumProphage: Gene Therapy for Hemophilia, Blindness, and Cancer, and the Tools That Make it Possible at the HMGS 2014 Symposium
The topic for this years symposium was Gene Therapy, which made sense because we have a lot of great gene therapy researchers here at Penn who were able to give some talks. These presenters included Dr. Katharine High, Dr. Jean Bennett, Dr. Jim Wilson, and Dr. Marcela Maus (faculty profiles in the abstract book). Dr. High talked about her research toward using gene therapeutic approaches to treat hemophilia, which has come a long way over the years and is yielding great results. Dr. Bennett discussed her work in developing gene therapies for treating congenital blindness, which is just amazing! Because of this research, there are actually children who were blind but are now able to see after being treated with this gene therapy. Check out the video clip below to see the remarkable results, and to get some more information ...
10 Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment | Fact File10 Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment | Fact File
If you are interested to know the differences between visual impairment and blindness, you have to check Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment. Blindness
New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses - The New York TimesNew Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses - The New York Times
Sensory substitution devices can help handicapped individuals regain some lost sensorial abilities and help them lead more normal lives; story of balance-impaired Cheryl Schiltz and her use of BrainPort technology to stabilize her world discussed; Dr Paul Bach-y-Rita, University of Wisconsin Medical School orthopedics and rehabilitation department neuroscientist, developed BrainPort, portable sensory substitution device; process in which tongue, ear or skin can help blind people see is described; brain function changes can occur after using BrainPort, encouraging researchers to continue development; potential applications discussed; photos; drawings (L)
Melanopsin - wikidocMelanopsin - wikidoc
Melanopsin serves an important role in the photoentrainment of circadian rhythms in mammals. An organism that is photoentrained has aligned its activity to an approximately 24-hour cycle, the solar cycle on Earth.[29] In mammals, melanopsin expressing axons target the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) through the retinohypothalamic tract (RHT).[5] In mammals, the eye is the main photosensitive organ for the transmission of light signals to the brain. However, blind humans are still able to entrain to the environmental light-dark cycle, despite having no conscious perception of the light. One study exposed subjects to bright light for a prolonged duration of time and measured their melatonin concentrations. Melatonin was not only suppressed in visually unimpaired humans, but also in blind participants, suggesting that the photic pathway used by the circadian system is functionally intact despite blindness.[30] Therefore, physicians no longer practice enucleation of blind patients, or removal of the ...
Its National Glaucoma Awareness MonthIt's National Glaucoma Awareness Month
In order to create awareness about the silent blinding diseases, January has been declared National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Glaucoma is the leading cause of avoidable blindness, accounting for 9%-12% of all cases of total vision loss in the United States and effecting nearly 70 million people around the world. Because the disease has no early symptoms, research shows that close to half of those with glaucoma are unaware of their illness.. Glaucoma is the name for a number of eye diseases that have the common affect of causing damage to the eyes optic nerve, which is responsible for transmitting images to be processed in the brain. Although anyone can develop glaucoma, there are particular populations that are more likely to develop it such as African Americans above 40 years of age, senior citizens, in particular Mexican Americans, and individuals with a family history of glaucoma.. Since blindness due to optic nerve damage can not be restored, vision can only be preserved through early ...
Breakthrough raises hope for blindness cureBreakthrough raises hope for blindness cure
The scientists behind the research believe that it is the first time that nerve cells at the back of eye have been successfully transplanted to restore vision, a development that promises to help millions of blind people throughout the world.. "The most important thing is the principle that it can be done," said Robert MacLaren, a consultant surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, who was part of the Anglo-American research team.. "Weve discovered a biological principle, a healing mechanism that we can take advantage of, but its still a long way to go before we can apply this to people. We are now confident that this is the avenue to pursue to uncover ways of restoring vision to thousands who have lost their sight.". The study, published in the journal Nature, involved blind mice that were born without light-sensitive "photoreceptors", which detect light when it reaches the retina and send the appropriate signals to the brain via the optic nerve.. Stem cells from the eyes of normal mouse ...
Macedonian Academic Publishing: PREVALENCE AND CAUSES OF BLINDNESS AMONG MACEDONIAN ADULT POPULATIONMacedonian Academic Publishing: PREVALENCE AND CAUSES OF BLINDNESS AMONG MACEDONIAN ADULT POPULATION
Results: A total of 475 records were included in the research. The mean age of the persons was 64.1 (range 26-87), both male and female. Blindness was found to be significantly associated with increasing age (p,0.001). There was gender difference in the prevalence of blindness (p=0.0310).The rate of blindness was estimated to be 0.24% (95% CI:0.22-0.26). The most common causes were cataract (23.2%), then glaucoma (21.7%) and diabetic retinopathy (12.8%). Many of the causes of blindness were potentially avoidable, with cataract and glaucoma as leading etiology ...
German Companys Bionic Retina Restores Some Vision in Clinical Trial | blindness.orgGerman Company's Bionic Retina Restores Some Vision in Clinical Trial | blindness.org
An artificial retina developed by Retina Implant AG of Reutlingen, Germany, has restored meaningful vision to most of the nine blind people - eight with retinitis pigmentosa, one with cone-rod dystrophy - enrolled in a clinical trial. Five of the participants recognized objects such as door knobs, telephones and facial features. One person was able to read store and restaurant signs, and another was able to observe the movements of a wild goose.
What Is The Number One Cause Of Blindness - 3 03 Remember The Structures Of The Sensory System Ppt | Www.velkommen.orgWhat Is The Number One Cause Of Blindness - 3 03 Remember The Structures Of The Sensory System Ppt | Www.velkommen.org
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Notes on Blindness :: Film MovementNotes on Blindness :: Film Movement
After losing sight, John Hull knew that if he did not try to understand blindness it would destroy him. In 1983 he began keeping an audio diary. Over three years John recorded over sixteen hours of material, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Published in 1990, the diaries were described by author and neurologist Oliver Sacks as, A masterpiece… The most precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read.Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative - and one of the most essential British documentaries of the year.. ...
Get Your Banners Noticed: 5 Ways to Avoid Banner Blindness - MindEcologyGet Your Banners Noticed: 5 Ways to Avoid Banner Blindness - MindEcology
Your customers are going blind.. Not literally, of course, but when it comes to banner ads, they just arent seeing them.. When they were first introduced more than 20 years ago, banner ads had an unbeatable response rate, compelling internet searchers to click thru to websites and generating sales at a record pace. But as internet advertising has proliferated, internet users have become more and more immune to what they interpret as noise and banner ad blindness has become rampant.. Without a plan, advertising spent on banner ads can be like throwing money at the wind. Luckily, overcoming banner blindness is something a savvy advertising agency can help you accomplish.. Read on for five ways to overcome banner blindness:. Know your audience: Knowing who you want to reach is the foundation for overcoming banner blindness - and being effective at marketing, for that matter. Reaching your customers at the right place at the right time can only be accomplished if youve done careful research to ...
Research - Eyes for east africaResearch - Eyes for east africa
Are blind people more likely to accept free cataract surgery? A study of vision-related quality of life and visual acuity in Kenya ...
Childhood blindness - WikipediaChildhood blindness - Wikipedia
Braille is a universal way to learn how to read and write, for the blind.[17] A refreshable braille display is an assistive learning device that can help such children in school.[18] Schools for the blind are a form of management, however the limitations of using studies done in such schools has been recognized. Children that are enrolled presently, usually, had developed blindness 5 or more years prior to enrollment, consequently not reflecting current possible causes.[19] About 66% of children with visual impairment also have one other disability (comorbidity), be it, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, or hearing loss.[20] Eye care/screening for children within primary health care is important as catching ocular disease issues can lead to better outcomes.[21] ...
44)Needed - An Electronic Device or iPhone that can translate Spoken Words, that is, | Usha Padiyars Blog44)Needed - An Electronic Device or iPhone that can translate Spoken Words, that is, | Usha Padiyar's Blog
Likewise, they at a greater danger than blind persons to be knocked down by other vehicles on busy roads, as blind people are noticed immediately, and therefore protected by others, whereas the hearing impaired are not perceived so easily, and are therefore more liable to accidents than the Blind. Of course, the Real Cure for their deafness is through restorative surgery by repair of their ears by Biological Cochlear Implant. However, till this is possible, What is needed to help them, especially those Who are not really Mute, but rendered so because of their hearing disability, to assimilate with those having normal hearing power is an electronic device that can translate Spoken words or Audio Messages into Visual Form, i.e. either as typed messages orSign language, on a screen, to help Hearing Impaired(Deaf) people to SEE the conversation of those with normal hearing power, And VICE VERSA, viz. translating the message conveyed through Sign language by deaf- mute persons into Voice ...
The influence of different surface segregation cues on temporary blindness | JOV | ARVO JournalsThe influence of different surface segregation cues on temporary blindness | JOV | ARVO Journals
Motion-induced blindness (MIB) and Perceptual Filling-in (PFI) are two instances of temporary blindness in which, after prolonged viewing, perceptually salient targets repeatedly disappear and reappear, amidst a field of distracters. Hsu and Yeh (VSS2004) provided an integrated model in which the establishment of surfaces is assumed to cause both these phenomena. In this model, a target is assumed to fade when its surface is perceived to lose its boundary due to either adaptation, or due to the presence of other surfaces that are defined by distractors. A surface representation can be established with the help of various segregation cues, and here we test whether, as the model predicts, any kind of cue can give rise to the same effect. Four different cues were used that were based on (1) motion, (2) binocular disparity, (3) perceptual grouping, or (4) occlusion. The results support our hypotheses that all kinds of surfaces produced the temporary blindness phenomenon.. ...
Experiences of an educational programme for individuals with blindness caused by diabetesExperiences of an educational programme for individuals with blindness caused by diabetes
Background: Individuals with blindness caused by diabetes face problems in their daily life that are related to both conditions. Hopefully some of these problems can be solved and simplified through a suitable educational programme. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the educational programme Im the boss is suitable for blind individuals with diabetes, and to discover whether and how the programme inspired the participants in developing self-management skills. Methods: An ophthalmologic centre and two medical centres in a well-defined geographic area were screened for blind individuals with diabetes, resulting in the participation of nine individuals in the educational programme. The programme consisted of six three-hour-long weekly sessions based on empowerment and problem-based learning. Empowerment was measured using the Swedish version of the diabetes empowerment scale (Swe-DES-23). After completion of the programme, the participants were interviewed (focus group and ...
Change Blindness (Overview)Change Blindness (Overview)
Change Blindness is a phenomenon that occurs when a substantial change has taken place in ones visual field but one fails to notice it. Change blindness experience can be generated when a brief flash comes between two versions of a scene. This flash prevents the change from rising to the level of consciousness unless the person is actively attending to the object. The interesting aspect is that once the change is noticed, it seems so obvious. This program lets users trace out the pattern that they adopt when scanning through a blurred or low-contrast scene. Move the mouse to guide the circle and then click when youve found the change. ...
Study of Change Blindness EEG Synchronization using Wavelet Coherence Analysis Professor: Liu Student: Ruby. - ppt downloadStudy of Change Blindness EEG Synchronization using Wavelet Coherence Analysis Professor: Liu Student: Ruby. - ppt download
References Two explanations for change blindness: -Visual memory can encoding the information, but can not record all changes. -Visual memory has limitation during the pictures was changed. (Markazi et al., 2005) Comparing brain activity during change detection and change blindness. (Beck et al., 2001)
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Change Blindness | Theodore KoterwasChange Blindness | Theodore Koterwas
Change Blindness is a museum exhibit about perception and attention. A large projected image blinks every few seconds. With each blink, something in the image changes. After roughly 30 changes, the original image has transformed completely into a new image. Viewers rarely notice any of the changes. The blink, analogous to the blink of an eye, the pass of a windshield wiper, or any other momentary disruption to your field of view, prevents the apparent motion of the change from drawing your attention to it. A small podium with pushbuttons allows viewers to control the projection: toggle the most recent change on and off, remove the blink, and see the image before any of the changes were made.. The exhibit was first installed in the Exploratorium in 2001.. In 2009, a version of Change Blindness was commissioned and installed in the Queens Library. The imagery was updated to 3 locations in the city. Originally developed in Macromedia Director, the exhibit was ported to Flash.. In 2013, the exhibit ...
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A horse of course - Gettysburg CollegeA horse of course - Gettysburg College
Students at Gettysburg College are practiced at finding connections between their most passionate personal interests and their coursework-and professors know how powerful those connections can be for learning.. Take chemistry Prof. Koren Lipsett, whose research focuses on genomic studies to better understand human disease. Lipsett has owned and rescued horses for many years. Today, in part because of a connection made by one of her students, horses are a focus of her research on deafness in humans.. Horses to humans. By researching genetic diseases in large mammals, Lipsett and students in her lab hope to help researchers better understand how to treat human genetic disorders, such as congenital blindness and deafness. Theyve worked with cats (blindness), cattle (fibroblast growth factor-hair length), and-for the past eight years-deafness in horses.. The inspiration for the horse project came from Suzanne E. DiNello-Schleicher 10, a biology and chemistry double major-now a veterinarian. While ...
An estimated 4,195,966 Americans age 40 and older have vision impairment and blindness-1,288,275 are blind and 2,907,691 have...An estimated 4,195,966 Americans age 40 and older have vision impairment and blindness-1,288,275 are blind and 2,907,691 have...
An estimated 4,195,966 Americans age 40 and older have vision impairment and blindness-1,288,275 are blind and 2,907,691 have vision impairment.
Tackling Blindness in South Sudan-Preserving and Restoring Sight - Aid for AfricaTackling Blindness in South Sudan-Preserving and Restoring Sight - Aid for Africa
In Africa, loss of sight not only means a life of darkness. For many adults it means a loss of income and the ability to work, requiring dependence on family members and reducing a familys overall productivity. Currently more than three million African children under the age of five are blind and an estimated 43 million are threatened by vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of blindness and vision problems. These children are more susceptible to life-threatening diseases.. The John Dau Foundation founded the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in 2007 to provide basic medical services to diagnose and treat common illnesses and specific medical disorders indigenous to this region. "When we first started the clinic, the needs were massive and overwhelming; vision and nutrition were low on the list," said Dr. David Reed, the foundations medical director.. But as the years passed, the clinic staff continued to see throngs of blind patients being led on sticks by children or family members. "We realized that ...
Dana CenterDana Center
The Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, founded by Alfred Sommer, M.D., M.H.S., is a leader in global and domestic research on blindness prevention and the only World Health Organization collaborating center in the United States. Our center guides research-based programmatic activities and educates future leaders to alleviate unnecessary blindness worldwide. Our faculty includes ophthalmologists, epidemiologists, statisticians, programmers, project coordinators and administrative personnel. Together, our mission is to prevent avoidable visual disability and blindness around the globe by conducting valuable research, using sound public health policies and programs, and training the next generation of leaders in public health ophthalmology.. Support the Dana Center Gift Fund ...
Eye Surgery - Great Lakes Eye Surgery Center » Recent Glaucoma ResearchEye Surgery - Great Lakes Eye Surgery Center » Recent Glaucoma Research
Publish date: FEB 12, 2014. San Francisco-The probability of blindness due to glaucoma has decreased by nearly half since 1980, according to a study published this month in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.. The researchers-a team based at the Mayo Clinic-speculate that advances in diagnosis and therapy are likely causes for the decrease, but caution that a significant proportion of patients still progress to blindness.. The study was the first to assess long-term changes in the risk of progression to blindness and the population incidence of glaucoma-related blindness. By identifying epidemiologic trends in glaucoma, the researchers hope to gain insight into best practices for the distribution of health and medical resources, as well as management approaches for entire populations.. The researchers reviewed every incident case (857 cases total) of open-angled glaucoma (OAG) diagnosed between 1965 and 2009 in Olmsted County, MN-one of the few places in the ...
Blind man arrives in London following 750 mile cycle challenge in aid of RNIB - PosAbility Magazine | Disability MagazineBlind man arrives in London following 750 mile cycle challenge in aid of RNIB - PosAbility Magazine | Disability Magazine
57-year-old Ken Reid, who is registered blind, arrived in the capital on 12 August, having cycled 750 miles from Edinburgh on a tandem to raise vital funds for RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People).. Ken, who was diagnosed with degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa thirty years ago, visited all four of the UKs capitals, as well as Dublin, during his two week challenge. He has been supported by a team of volunteer pilots who have helped him navigate his 750-mile route.. He arrived at RNIBs headquarters at Judd Street just after midday to rapturous applause from the charitys London staff and infamous mascot, Sooty.. So far, Ken has raised £8,340, having reached and gone over his original target of £7,500. All money raised will be donated to RNIBs Talking Books service - something that he describes as a lifeline for himself and for others who are living with sight loss.. "The sight loss journey isnt an easy one," Ken says, "and I didnt intend that my cycle journey should ...
No experience required: Category-specific brain organization in sighted and blind humans | EurekAlert! Science NewsNo experience required: Category-specific brain organization in sighted and blind humans | EurekAlert! Science News
A new study finds a surprising similarity in the way neural circuits linked to vision process information in both sighted individuals and those who have been blind since birth. The research, published by Cell Press in the Aug. 13 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals that category-specific localized activation of a critical part of the visual cortex does not require any prior visual experience and provides fascinating and valuable insight into the evolutionary history of the human brain.
Inspired by a blind musician | World Music Central.orgInspired by a blind musician | World Music Central.org
The more I meander through this beautiful jazz and fusion journey, the more I meet people of different hues, of different styles of thinking and whose experiences make you so much richer by them. The latest in these touching moments is the story of B Santana, a completely blind drummer who suddenly lost his eyesight due to damage to the optic nerve via the dreaded disease Multiple Sclerosis. Being inspired by him, we have decided to give the gate collection of the show to the National Association for the Blind, Goa Chapter, and it has been a pleasure working with this dedicated group of people who are quietly toiling, despite all odds, to help out the blind in Goa. And, you will be surprised to know, and I was surprised too, that there are more than 2000 completely blind people in Goa who require constant help.Having been cajoled by friends to hold a jazz concert during the festive season, I was in two minds about the whole thing due to pressure on my time. However, when Santana suddenly popped ...
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River blindness[edit]. Ivermectin is used for prevention, treatment, and control of river blindness (onchocerciasis) in ... Moxidectin has been approved by the FDA for use in people with river blindness, has a longer half-life than ivermectin, and may ... Boussinesq M (October 2018). "A new powerful drug to combat river blindness". Lancet. 392 (10154): 1170-1172. doi:10.1016/S0140 ... American NGDO Treating River Blindness. *MERCK. 25 Years: The MECTIZAN® Donation ProgramArchived October 13, 2012, at the ...
Stem-cell therapyStem-cell therapy
Blindness and vision impairment[edit]. Since 2003, researchers have successfully transplanted corneal stem cells into damaged ...
LogMAR chartLogMAR chart
Low vision and blindness definition with LogMAR[edit]. The World Health Organization established criteria for low vision using ... Blindness is defined as a best-corrected visual acuity worse than 1.3 LogMAR.[6] ...
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Blindness[edit]. As blindness overtook Milton, it becomes a major trope in Samson Agonistes, and is seen also in Paradise Lost ... Samson's blindness, however, is in no way a direct analogy to Milton's. Rather, Samson's blindness plays various symbolic roles ... Many scholars have written about the impact of Milton's increasing blindness on his works. This recurrence of blindness came ... It also plays on his blindness to reason, leading him to act hastily, plus the fact that he is so easily deceived by Delila, " ...
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Blindness and death[edit]. On 2 December 1869 - while Francesc was preaching in Sallent (in Catalonia) - he was struck blind. ...
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Night Blindness : Night blindness occurs in any person with severe vitamin A deficiency. The reason for this is that without ... This condition is called night blindness because the amount of light available at night is too little to permit adequate vision ... or more of the cone subtypes that causes individuals to have deficiencies in colour vision or various kinds of colour blindness ...
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Color blindness. References[edit]. *^ Laxar, K. V. (1998). "U.S. Navy Color Vision Standards Revisited". Groton, Connecticut: ... By design, the FALANT allows mild color-blindness conditions to pass the test, while still excluding most of the moderate or ... United States Air Force discontinued use of the FALANT in 1993 due to its frequent failure to identify cases of color blindness ...
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Color blindness. References[edit]. *^ Wyszecki, Günther; Stiles, W.S. (1982). Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative ...
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Eventual blindness. Causes[edit]. RP may be: (1) Non-syndromic, that is, it occurs alone, without any other clinical findings ... While complete blindness is rare, the person's visual acuity and visual field will continue to decline as initial rod ... Lok, Corie (2014). "Curing blindness: Vision quest". Nature News & Comment. 513 (7517): 160-162. Bibcode:2014Natur.513..160L. ... The X-linked forms of the disease are considered severe, and typically lead to complete blindness during later stages. In rare ...
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At the same time as Helmholtz, Ewald Hering developed the opponent process theory of color, noting that color blindness and ... Main article: Color blindness. If one or more types of a person's color-sensing cones are missing or less responsive than ...
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"Color Blindness Tests". Colblinder. Retrieved 3 December 2013.. *^ "Whonamedit - dictionary of medical eponyms". www.whonamedit ... S. Ishihara, Tests for color-blindness (Handaya, Tokyo, Hongo Harukicho, 1917). *^ Kindel, Eric. "Ishihara". Eye Magazine. ... Test of color blindness with the indication of the weaknesses in various colors, quantifies green red blue deficiency (ISHIHARA ... While holding a military position related to his field, he was given the task of creating a color blindness test. Ishihara ...
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Onchocerciasis (River Blindness). While in Africa, Harold Ridley led important research[10] into onchocerciasis when he was ... "A pioneer in the quest to eradicate world blindness" in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003 ... to raise funds for cataract surgery in developing countries and to treat avoidable blindness.[4] A registered charity under ... who stimulated Ridley's interest to study River Blindness, an endemic disease in parts of the country. To find onchocerciasis ...
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Amygdala Activation for Eye Contact Despite Complete Cortical Blindness. Nicolas Burra, Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Dirk Kerzel, ... Amygdala Activation for Eye Contact Despite Complete Cortical Blindness. Nicolas Burra, Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Dirk Kerzel, ... Cortical blindness refers to the loss of vision that occurs after destruction of the primary visual cortex. Although there is ... Amygdala Activation for Eye Contact Despite Complete Cortical Blindness Message Subject (Your Name) has forwarded a page to you ...
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color-blindness.com *^ Deuteranopia - Red-Green Color Blindness Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. color-blindness.com ... Red-green color blindness is the most common form, followed by blue-yellow color blindness and total color blindness.[2] Red- ... Total color blindness is much less common than partial color blindness.[34] There are two major types of color blindness: ... color-blindness.com *^ a b c Wong B (June 2011). "Color blindness". Nature Methods. 8 (6): 441. doi:10.1038/nmeth.1618. PMID ...
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Change blindness or inattentional blindness Change blindness refers to the failure to notice something different about a ... Overview of inattentional blindness research The term "inattentional blindness" was coined by Arien Mack and Irvin Rock to ... Inattentional blindness or inattentional amnesia. Conclusions from studies of inattentional blindness are premised on the idea ... Inattentional blindness or inattentional agnosia Another alternative to the inattentional blindness account is that observers ...
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Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) provides major eye research funding to 37 leading scientific institutions in the U.S. and ... Research to Prevent Blindness Expands Grants Program Many of the organizations individual grants will now be open to ... Research to Prevent Blindness Funding Life Changing Research. Accelerating treatments and cures ... Research to Prevent Blindness and Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology Announce 2018 Recipient of RPB David F ...
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Color Blindness Resources. *Colour Blind Awareness *All About Color Blindness by Karen Levine ... 2006-2018 by Colblindor - color-blindness.com - any content questions through the color blindness contact page - powered by ... RGB Anomaloscope Color Blindness Test. This is my first try to develop a simple red-green color blindness test. It is based on ... You can find color blindness tests, tools, facts, news and a lot more right here. If you have still have any open question, ...
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Free color blindness test app: Color Blind Check. The term red-green color blindness is often used but actually not quite ... Color Blindness Simulation Tool. Ever wanted to see how it looks like if you are colorblind? Try out Coblis - Color Blindness ... Color Blindness - learn all about it. "Colblindor at www.color-blindness.com presents all you ever wanted to know, learn and ... Color blindness (or colour blindness - or more specific color vision deficiency (CVD)) is well known but hard to imagine if you ...
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... living with face blindness, research youre doing, subjects you might be seeking, or news about face blindness research, news ... Things to mention might be your name, your location or university, and your involvement with face blindness (such as you have ... Appropriate topics here are questions about face blindness, ... Welcome to our public face blindness (prosopagnosia) discussion ... more than one of us had face blindness (or were in a sort of face blindness. , group together), then I would have my radar ...
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Color blindness - WikipediaColor blindness - Wikipedia
color-blindness.com *^ Deuteranopia - Red-Green Color Blindness Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. color-blindness.com ... Red-green color blindness is the most common form, followed by blue-yellow color blindness and total color blindness.[2] Red- ... Total color blindness is much less common than partial color blindness.[5] There are two major types of color blindness: ... color-blindness.com *^ Albrecht, Mario (2010). "Color blindness". Nature Methods. 7 (10): 775. doi:10.1038/nmeth1010-775a. ISSN ...
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Childhood blindness is an important cause contributing to the burden of blindness.[4] Blindness in children can be defined as a ... There are many causes of blindness in children. Blindness may be due to genetic mutations, birth defects, premature birth, ... Childhood blindness has many causes, and each cause has its own method of damaging the eyes.[11] Leber congenital amaurosis ... Whether blindness is treatable depends upon the cause.[15] Surgical intervention can be performed in PCG which is childhood ...
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Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago. It ... Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the ... Blindness (2008 film). *The Day of the Triffids, the 1951 John Wyndham novel (and its many adaptations) about societal collapse ... Saramago wrote a sequel to Blindness in 2004, titled Seeing (Ensaio sobre a lucidez, literal English translation Essay on ...
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A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness. ... Blindness (2008) R , 2h 1min , Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi , 3 ... Q: Is "Blindness" based on a book? Q: Why did they put the blind Accountant in the institute? If he was already blind, how ... Blindness See more » Filming Locations:. Minhocão, Via Elevada Presidente João Goulart, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil See more ... And so we have this film called blindness. What people do when widespread panic strikes due to an epidemic that grows in ...
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"Motivated blindness is when you dont recognize facts that are sitting in front of you because they would be inconvenient for ... "Thats motivated blindness. Thats why often after misconduct is uncovered, the first question is how could you have ignored ...
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How do you overcome schlep blindness? Frankly, the most valuable antidote to schlep blindness is probably ignorance. Most ... Thats schlep blindness.. The phenomenon isnt limited to startups. Most people dont consciously decide not to be in as good ... One reason we dont see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into ... The most striking example I know of schlep blindness is Stripe, or rather Stripes idea. For over a decade, every hacker whod ...
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From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes ("blindness"), equivalent to blind +‎ -ness. ... blindness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911. *"blindness", in OED Online ⁠. , Oxford: Oxford ... Oh, to be as others were - blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock ... Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=blindness&oldid=50452406" ...
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One of the biggest community-led medical campaigns, against the scourge of River Blindness, has scored a huge success. Now the ... Ending African River Blindness Part I: The Disease - Duration: 8:29. UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources 12,692 views ... River Blindness Video Journal Part 3: Women and Biomedicine (Carter Center) - Duration: 3:08. The Carter Center 898 views ... Preventing River Blindness, Preserving Vision for Future Generations (Carter Center) - Duration: 3:17. The Carter Center 7,847 ...
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Fundraise or donate to Fighting Blindness with JustGiving, the worlds leading online fundraising platform, helping charities to ... About Fighting Blindness. Fighting Blindness is an Irish patient-led charity funding research into treatments and cures for ... Fighting Blindness. We fund research, counselling and advocacy to cure and support people with sight loss. ... Blaze a trail to beat blindness by joining us for the 2017 Glendalough Trail Run - a unique challenge with beautiful routes for ...
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If you have color blindness, you cant see the difference between certain colors. It is more common in men. Learn about ... Most of the time, color blindness is genetic. There is no treatment, but most people adjust and the condition doesnt limit ... The primary NIH organization for research on Color Blindness is the National Eye Institute ...
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Nyctalopia1
  • The complete form of X-linked congenital stationary night blindness, also known as nyctalopia, is caused by mutations in the NYX gene (Nyctalopin on X-chromosome), which encodes a small leucine-rich repeat (LRR) family protein of unknown function. (wikipedia.org)
River Blindness15
Research to Prevent Blindness9
  • Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) provides major eye research funding to 37 leading scientific institutions in the U.S. and supports the work of hundreds of talented vision scientists engaged in a diverse range of disease-oriented research. (rpbusa.org)
  • As a catalyst for vision research, Research to Prevent Blindness partners with other vision research funders--combining resources, experience and capacity-to accelerate solutions for vision loss. (rpbusa.org)
  • Research to Prevent Blindness and the American Academy of Ophthalmology today announced that they have created a new category of grant to support researchers who want to use the Academy's IRIS® Registry database to conduct population-based. (newswise.com)
  • Research to Prevent Blindness-supported researchers in New York (at Columbia University and University of Rochester) made a critical discovery about the gene mutation that causes many retinal degenerative diseases, opening the door for a new line of. (newswise.com)
  • Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center utilized their Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) grants to make progress in characterizing the genetic and physiologic components of Usher syndrome-the most common cause of deaf-blindness. (newswise.com)
  • The mission of Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is to preserve and restore vision by supporting research to develop treatments, preventives and cures for all conditions that damage and destroy sight. (newswise.com)
  • Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is a nonprofit organization created in 1960 by Jules Stein, the founder of Music Corporation of America, to stimulate research to eliminate blinding diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through a grants program, Research to Prevent Blindness has channeled more than $276 million into eye research. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research to Prevent Blindness grants are directed toward investigators at all stages of a career, beginning with Medical Student Fellowships. (wikipedia.org)
Congenital stationary night blindness7
  • X-linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is a rare X-linked non-progressive retinal disorder. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not all Congenital Stationary Night Blindness (CSNB) are inherited in X-linked pattern. (wikipedia.org)
  • The X-linked varieties of congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) can be differentiated from the autosomal forms by the presence of myopia, which is typically absent in the autosomal forms. (wikipedia.org)
  • The complete form of X-linked congenital stationary night blindness, also known as nyctalopia, is caused by mutations in the NYX gene (Nyctalopin on X-chromosome), which encodes a small leucine-rich repeat (LRR) family protein of unknown function. (wikipedia.org)
  • The incomplete form of X-linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB2) is caused by mutations in the CACNA1F gene, which encodes the voltage-gated calcium channel CaV1.4 expressed heavily in retina. (wikipedia.org)
  • Only three rhodopsin mutations have been found associated with congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB). (wikipedia.org)
  • Oguchi disease, also called congenital stationary night blindness, Oguchi type 1 or Oguchi disease 1, is an autosomal recessive form of congenital stationary night blindness associated with fundus discoloration and abnormally slow dark adaptation. (wikipedia.org)
Inability13
Night blindness8
  • Night blindness is poor vision at night or in dim light. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Night blindness may cause problems with driving at night. (medlineplus.gov)
  • People with night blindness often have trouble seeing stars on a clear night or walking through a dark room, such as a movie theater. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The causes of night blindness fall into 2 categories: treatable and nontreatable. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Call your eye doctor if symptoms of night blindness persist or significantly affect your life. (medlineplus.gov)
  • How severe is the night blindness? (medlineplus.gov)
  • This may also cause concomitant night blindness. (wikipedia.org)
  • Oguchi disease present with nonprogressive night blindness since young childhood or birth with normal day vision, but they frequently claim improvement of light sensitivities when they remain for some time in a darkened environment. (wikipedia.org)
Avoidable10
  • In planning and implementing control programs, consideration must be given to the simultaneous introduction of other specific measures for dealing with all causes of avoidable blindness. (cdc.gov)
  • The prime objective of POB Trust is to promote and sustain a global campaign against all forms of avoidable blindness with emphasis on deprived communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • About 80% of blindness is avoidable (it can be prevented or cured). (wikipedia.org)
  • During the period 1996 to 1998, through a series of consultations between the Programme Advisory Group (PAG) of WHO, the Partnership Committee, and the Task Force, the document, "Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness", was developed and adopted. (wikipedia.org)
  • The document sets out priorities and strategies to eliminate avoidable blindness. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Task Force was integrated within IAPB, becoming the "Task Force of IAPB", and a Memorandum of Understanding to implement the "Global Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness" was signed between IAPB and WHO. (wikipedia.org)
  • In May 2003, the 56th World Health Assembly of Ministers adopted a "Resolution on Elimination of Avoidable Blindness", which calls on all member states to prepare VISION 2020 plans by 2005. (wikipedia.org)
  • It works to prevent avoidable blindness and to cure blindness that is treatable. (wikipedia.org)
  • The organisation focuses on preventing avoidable blindness and on treating blindness and low vision when it is correctable. (wikipedia.org)
  • He met Arthur Jenkyns, a Calgary businessman, who founded Operation Eyesight to support Dr. Ben's mission to eradicate avoidable blindness. (wikipedia.org)
Colour14
Onchocerciasis4
Blue-yellow co2
Prosopagnosia5
Prevent Blindness America1
Willful Blindness4
  • Willful Blindness? (policyalternatives.ca)
  • Willful blindness (sometimes called ignorance of law, willful ignorance or contrived ignorance or Nelsonian knowledge) is a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping himself or herself unaware of facts that would render him or her liable. (wikipedia.org)
  • Willful blindness is a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping oneself unaware of facts that would render liability. (wikipedia.org)
  • The court held that this was willful blindness on the defendant's part and would not constitute a defense to a claim of contributory infringement. (wikipedia.org)
Motion induced b5
  • Motion-Induced Blindness plus 105 other Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions. (metafilter.com)
  • Check out this motion-induced blindness and these FPPs that also link to michaelbach.de. (metafilter.com)
  • The motion induced blindness one is a little weird for me - First just one dot disappears than BAM! (metafilter.com)
  • Motion Induced Blindness (MIB) is a phenomenon of visual disappearance or perceptual illusions observed in the lab, in which stationary visual stimuli disappear as if erased in front of an observer's eyes when masked with a moving background. (wikipedia.org)
  • Motion-induced blindness was originally discovered by Grindley and Townsend in 1965, followed by Ramachandran and Gregory in 1991. (wikipedia.org)
Forms of blindness3
Suffer from blindness3
Ishihara Color Blindness Test1
  • Since its creation, the Ishihara Color Blindness Test has become commonly used worldwide because of its easy use and high accuracy. (wikipedia.org)
Change blindness7
  • This phenomenon is related to but distinct from other failures of visual awareness such as change blindness , repetition blindness , visual masking , and the attentional blink . (scholarpedia.org)
  • Change blindness occurs when a user fails to notice a change in the user interface, despite visual cues. (meetup.com)
  • Many UX designers are concerned that 'change blindness is becoming a major problem when designing for the web. (meetup.com)
  • During this talk, we will define "change blindness" and how it occurs in digital spaces. (meetup.com)
  • We'll show examples and discuss what designers should consider when trying to prevent change blindness for users. (meetup.com)
  • Change blindness is a surprising perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it. (wikipedia.org)
  • Culture and change blindness. (wikipedia.org)
Banner blindness7
  • Most designers know about the phenomenon of "banner blindness", where users overlook banner ads and other important content that looks like banner ads. (meetup.com)
  • Banner blindness is a phenomenon in web usability where visitors to a website consciously or subconsciously ignore banner-like information, which can also be called ad blindness or banner noise. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term "banner blindness" was coined by Benway and Lane as a result of website usability tests where a majority of the test subjects either consciously or unconsciously ignored information that was presented in banners. (wikipedia.org)
  • Use of native advertisements and using social media is being encouraged in order to beat banner blindness because of its ability to engage the viewers. (wikipedia.org)
  • A possible explanation for the banner blindness phenomenon lay in the way users interacted with websites. (wikipedia.org)
  • This contributes to behaviors' such ad avoidance or banner blindness. (wikipedia.org)
  • Banner blindness or ad blindness, consciously or subconsciously ignoring banner-like advertisements at web pages. (wikipedia.org)
Amaurosis2
  • This small study builds on scientists' understanding of the effects of gene therapy for a particular form of blindness called Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). (www.nhs.uk)
  • Temporary blindness, a type of non-permanent vision loss, may refer to: Amaurosis fugax, or fleeting blindness Conversion disorder, formerly called hysterical blindness Flash blindness, caused by exposure to high-intensity light. (wikipedia.org)
Type of color blindness2
Protanopia2
  • Of course, for the most often encountered types Protanomly (the milder form or red-weakness) or Protanopia (missing red cones, red-blindness) and Deuteranomaly (green-weakness) or Deuteranopia (green-blindness) the colors red and green are the most problematic and misinterpreted or indistinguishable ones. (color-blindness.com)
  • There are various kinds of color blindness: Protanopia is a severe form of red-green color blindness, in which there is impairment in perception of very long wavelengths, such as reds. (wikipedia.org)
Causes of preventable2
  • Vitamin A supplementation plays an important role, specifically vitamin A deficiency is a top causes of preventable childhood blindness. (wikipedia.org)
  • The need for blindness prevention has led to a renewed interest in trachoma and associated infections, which are still the most important causes of preventable blindness in the world. (cdc.gov)
19993
  • Recent replications and extensions of this approach by Simons and Chabris (1999) showed that such sustained inattentional blindness occurs even when the unexpected object is fully visible and the displays are not superimposed. (scholarpedia.org)
  • VISION 2020 is a program launched by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and is supported by the WHO in 1999 that has made controlling blindness in children a high priority. (wikipedia.org)
  • Galloway N.R., Amoaku W.M.K. (1999) Blindness. (springer.com)
People17
  • Many people who are color blind see it as "21", and those with total color blindness may not see any numbers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Special lenses may help people with red-green color blindness when under bright conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because schlep blindness prevented people from even considering the idea of fixing payments. (paulgraham.com)
  • It is a misleading term because people with color blindness are not blind. (encyclopedia.com)
  • It is important to note that people with red/green or blue varieties of color blindness use other cues such as color saturation and object shape or location to distinguish colors. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Many people who dread blindness imagine having no perception of light in each eye. (springer.com)
  • Color Blindness Definition Color blindness is a condition in which people have mild to severe difficulty identifying colors. (bookrags.com)
  • Sudden blindness is caused by the blockage of blood flow to the optic nerve and is most common in older people -- who disproportionately use Viagra. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Special contact lenses and glasses may help people with color blindness tell the difference between similar colors. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This was a case series looking at the effects of gene therapy in three people with LCA, a severe and incurable form of blindness. (www.nhs.uk)
  • Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. (umich.edu)
  • This interdisciplinary monograph is relevant to people working in literary studies, disability studies, psychology, sociology, applied linguistics, life writing, and cultural studies, as well as those with a general interest in education and representations of blindness. (umich.edu)
  • When you sit in a coffee shop at the corner of two busy streets and read a book about blindness, you find yourself thinking unfamiliar thoughts, and you believe, when you raise your head to watch the people passing, that you see things differently. (goodreads.com)
  • Of course I know that sighted people also enjoy these things, but perhaps there is a kind of an intensification that blindness brings to these experiences which somehow makes them, in a way, more beautiful? (nytimes.com)
  • While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new. (wikipedia.org)
  • Though partial color blindness is considered only a mild disability and is controversial whether it is even a disorder, it is a condition that affects many people, particularly males. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is a list of people with color blindness, meaning they have a decreased ability to see color or differences in color. (wikipedia.org)
Retina3
  • Accidents or strokes that damage the retina or affect particular areas of the brain eye can lead to color blindness. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Tuebingen - A bionic retina implant which registers light and transmits messages to the brain could cure degenerative blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa, according to a team of German researchers. (news24.com)
  • Flash blindness, in contrast, is caused by a single very brief exposure which oversaturates the retina, and is not usually accompanied by reports of pain. (wikipedia.org)
Color blindness include1
  • Tests for color blindness include identifying partially concealed figures or patterns from a mass of colored dots and matching skeins of wool or enameled chips of various colors. (infoplease.com)
Deficiency2
Visual16
  • The term "inattentional blindness" was coined by Arien Mack and Irvin Rock to describe the results of their extensive studies of the visual perception of unexpected objects. (scholarpedia.org)
  • The infection can result in visual impairment and sometimes blindness. (cdc.gov)
  • The diagnosis of childhood blindness is done via methods to ascertain the degree of visual impairment in the affected child doing so via dilating eye drops and the proceeding eye exam. (wikipedia.org)
  • NVI and its three subtypes-cortical blindness, cortical visual impairment, and delayed visual maturation -must be distinguished from ocular visual impairment in terms of their different causes and structural foci, the brain and the eye respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • One diagnostic marker of this distinction is that the pupils of individuals with cortical blindness will respond to light whereas those of individuals with ocular visual impairment will not. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cortical blindness can be associated with visual hallucinations , denial of visual loss ( Anton-Babinski syndrome ), and the ability to perceive moving but not static objects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The development of cortical blindness into the milder cortical visual impairment is a more likely outcome. (wikipedia.org)
  • Trachoma can be controlled, and blindness and visual loss can be prevented by appropriate application of relatively simple and inexpensive measures. (cdc.gov)
  • Repetition blindness is the failure to recognize a second happening of a visual display. (wikipedia.org)
  • Flash blindness is visual impairment during and following exposure to a light flash of extremely high intensity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Flash blindness, a visual impairment following exposure to a light flash. (wikipedia.org)
  • Color blindness can also result from damages to the visual cortex in the brain. (wikipedia.org)
  • He then worked in Canada at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, during which time he developed a project on art education in schools for the blind and museums, studying cultural and social exclusion of blind students in visual arts education, and wrote on the epistemology and ontology of disability and blindness - a topic that has now expanded to include religious attitudes to disability. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, his articles also appear in special issues of the Harvard Educational Review, the British Journal of Visual Impairment, the Society for Disability Studies' Disability Studies Quarterly, and the National Federation of the Blind's Journal of Blindness Innovation and Research. (wikipedia.org)
  • Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness. (wikipedia.org)
  • Akinetopsia (Greek: a for "without", kine for "to move" and opsia for "seeing"), also known as cerebral akinetopsia or motion blindness, is a neuropsychological disorder in which a patient cannot perceive motion in their visual field, despite being able to see stationary objects without issue. (wikipedia.org)
Colors2
Trachoma1
  • Trachoma-control programs must be aimed primarily at those severely affected communities where the disease leads to blindness. (cdc.gov)
Inattentional blindness5
  • Inattentional blindness is the failure to notice a fully-visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object. (scholarpedia.org)
  • In most cases, studies of inattentional blindness involve a single critical trial in which an object appears unexpectedly while observers are performing their task. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Many of their studies from the early 1990s culminated in their 1998 Book entitled "Inattentional Blindness" (Mack & Rock, 1998). (scholarpedia.org)
  • Although Mack and Rock coined the term inattentional blindness , earlier work had explored similar failures of awareness under conditions of selective attention. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
Cataract2
  • Today's cataract surgery is often described as a marvel of modern medicine, a one-hour outpatient procedure that has spared millions from blindness, especially in developed countries. (news-medical.net)
  • Since its founding, RPB grant support has been identified with virtually every major scientific advance in eye research including the development of laser surgery for eye conditions, new drugs that prevent blindness, and refinements to the intraocular lenses used in cataract surgery. (wikipedia.org)
Hysterical2
Notes on Blindness6
  • Notes on Blindness traces one man's difficult journey and emerges with a reflection on the human condition that's as uplifting and edifying as it is simply moving. (rottentomatoes.com)
  • Following the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, NOTES ON BLINDNESS takes a creative approach to the documentary form. (rottentomatoes.com)
  • Notes on Blindness requires a level of effort on the viewer to garner a full appreciation, but it is worth it. (rottentomatoes.com)
  • Notes on Blindness traces a distinctive path, but it is hard to say whether an experimental film like this will attract audiences not already familiar with Hull's work. (rottentomatoes.com)
  • Notes on Blindness is a moving, intimate documentary, a triumph of sound and image, and a poetic examination of love, loss, memory and marriage. (rottentomatoes.com)
  • Click the link below to see what others say about Notes on Blindness! (rottentomatoes.com)
Cures for Blindness1
  • They were not exclusively interested in the causes and cures for blindness but also the social care of the individual. (wikipedia.org)
Definition of blindness2
  • The keeping of accurate statistics is of great importance, and in order to keep statistical records it is necessary to have a clear definition of blindness. (springer.com)
  • SPECIAL REPORT / Europe needs a unified definition of blindness to help tackle the condition that costs billions of euros in treatment and loss of economic activity, much of which could be saved, according to a study for the European Forum Against Blindness (EFAB), conducted across six countries. (euractiv.com)
Occurs1