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.
Failure or imperfection of vision at night or in dim light, with good vision only on bright days. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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 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.).
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.
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)
Persons with loss of vision such that there is an impact on activities of daily living.
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.
A chronic infection of the CONJUNCTIVA and CORNEA caused by CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS.
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.
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.
Diseases affecting the eye.
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).
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)
The removal of a cataractous CRYSTALLINE LENS from the eye.
Deviations from the average or standard indices of refraction of the eye through its dioptric or refractive apparatus.
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)
Damage or trauma inflicted to the eye by external means. The concept includes both surface injuries and intraocular injuries.
Recording of electric potentials in the retina after stimulation by light.
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.
Diseases of the cornea.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A surgical specialty concerned with the structure and function of the eye and the medical and surgical treatment of its defects and diseases.
Disorder occurring in the central or peripheral area of the cornea. The usual degree of transparency becomes relatively opaque.
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.
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)
Hereditary, progressive degeneration of the neuroepithelium of the retina characterized by night blindness and progressive contraction of the visual field.
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.
Infection with nematodes of the genus ONCHOCERCA. Characteristics include the presence of firm subcutaneous nodules filled with adult worms, PRURITUS, and ocular lesions.
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)
Inflammation of the cornea.
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.
Adjustment of the eyes under conditions of low light. The sensitivity of the eye to light is increased during dark adaptation.
Glaucoma in which the angle of the anterior chamber is open and the trabecular meshwork does not encroach on the base of the iris.
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.
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.
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)
A republic in western Africa, south of NIGER between BENIN and CAMEROON. Its capital is Abuja.
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.
A disease of the eye in which the eyelashes abnormally turn inwards toward the eyeball producing constant irritation caused by motion of the lids.
The status of health in rural populations.
Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction.
The process in which light signals are transformed by the PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS into electrical signals which can then be transmitted to the brain.
Enzymes that catalyze the rearrangement of geometry about double bonds. EC 5.2.
Images used to comment on such things as contemporary events, social habits, or political trends; usually executed in a broad or abbreviated manner.
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.
The teaching or training of those individuals with visual disability.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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)
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.
Devices that help people with impaired sensory responses.
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)
A series of tests used to assess various functions of the eyes.
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.
The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world.
A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.
The ability to respond to segments of the perceptual experience rather than to the whole.
A country in northeastern Africa. The capital is Khartoum.
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)

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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) ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Senator Abshir Bukhari Opened A New School For The Blind And Distributed Mobility Equipment To The Blind People In Galmudug State Adado. Senator Abshirs
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
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
Natalia Ponomareva has designed a new concept called Touch & Go. It is an innovative navigational system especially has been designed for the blind people in order to make them self-directed. They can wear this navigational device in their hands. The Concept includes a hand gadget along with an earpiece and a tactile display. This display is able to provide the directions as a map. Moreover, this concept is able to direct at 1:1000 scale and remains in the center of the positions of the users. At the same time, it has an indicator arrow that directs the user to move in and supports the user via auditory signals to the earphone. This earphone has been equipped with an ultrasonic transmitter-receiver ...
Voice Bank. Internet for the blind people PROBLEM From 329.000 blind people in Colombia, 92% belong to low and middle class. Most of them have access to computers but not to Internet or Internet News, because the existing aids are extremely expensive, limited and hard to find. IDEA Just by clicking on a banner in www.eltiempo.com, the Web Site from the most important newspaper in the Country, any sighted person can read a news article outloud and record it immediately, so it can also be available for the blind people on the site www.bancodevoz.org. At www.bancodevoz.org, just by listening and using the number keys on their keyboard, blind people can surf the Web, as any other person that can see is able to, on a call center service, where they can listen to the news which are read by hundreds of Colombians, replacing the robotic voices, some devices use, by human voices. RESULTS The VOICE BANK grows on daily basis, and each day we get more donors and news, generating a self-sufficient platform ...
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 is a concept device that features an innovative way of helping blind people on reading non-Braille books. This device incorporates a flat glass
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?
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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
With blind people always being portrayed as helpless, supernatural or inspirational in the media, blogger Alex Man speaks out to try dispel these misconceptions.
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 ...
Can a blind person manage a small business? How do blind students excel in school? What are NFB training centers, and why should you get training? At last years convention, we met and heard from blind persons who are experts in these areas and more. What interesting stories from blind people will we hear at the 2021 Convention?. Do you want to meet seniors who are living the lives they want despite losing their vision later in life? Do you want to meet blind people who are successfully employed in everything from electrical engineering to clerical work? Do you want to meet blind people who own and operate their own businesses? By networking at the convention, you will meet all these types of people and more.. The banquet on Saturday evening is the highlight of every convention. Our keynote speaker has been actively involved in the National Federation of the Blind for many years. You will not want to miss this inspirational address. We will also award scholarships, and recognize a variety of ...
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 ...
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…
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
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.. ...
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 ...
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 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.. ...
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. ...
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 ...
Last year Conchita Hernández hosted a blindness workshop in the border town of McAllen, Texas. She wasnt sure how many people would show up. McAllen sits on the US border with Mexico, a city surrounded on all sides by government checkpoints - a civic purgatory for undocumented immigrants who cant move back or forward. It wasnt clear how many blind students there were in McAllen, but, when a quality service is offered, word spreads. Sixteen families showed up, each united by the same pursuits: healthier options, better information, and a better life for their blind children.. Life is not perfect for blind children in South Texas, and many blind children still do not qualify for services in the American system because of their immigration status. The prospects in Mexico, however, are worse. Blindness alone is not a qualifier for asylum, and so many families with blind children attempt to cross the border on their own. One case, in Nogales, AZ in April, saw a blind 6-year-old and her 4-year-old ...
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 ...
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 ...
TYLER NOONAN Lewis & Clark College (Deborah Heath). Deshen, Shlomo. Mutual Rejection and Association among the Discredited: Blind People in Israel. Human Organization November, 1991 Vol. 50: 89-95. (In the following I read an article by Shlomo Deshen observing the effects of being blind in Israel and the social rejections and associations among these discredited people. His work is based on interactions with 57 people aged 35-50 years of age. However he was in contact with other disabled minorities of social separation. He was in contact with around 100 legally blind individuals. This is my summary of his analysis.). Deshen describes that the able-bodied or sighted people evaluate the conditions of a disabled individual. In order to then categorize, or negatively channel them, into separate social niches other than their own. The disabled (not only blind people) can only submit to this separation and do not create symbols of their own to challenge this stereotype. Ethnic minorities can ...
FIGURE 2. Visual Impairment and Causes in Glaucoma Patients. A. Of the 1,454 patient records reviewed, 196 (13%) met criteria for legal blindness; 352 (24%) were monocular; and 100 (7%) were not legally blind but had levels of visual impairment that restricted their driving.. B. Of the 196 glaucoma patients who met criteria for legal blindness, 94 patients were blind from glaucoma (represented by black dots). Sixty-nine patients were blind from glaucoma as well as another ocular cause (for example, neovascular glaucoma due to advanced proliferative diabetic retinopathy, represented by grey dots), and 33 glaucoma patients were blind from non-glaucomatous causes (for example, age-related macular degeneration and retinal vascular occlusive disease, represented by light dots). The black and grey dots represent the patients with glaucoma-related blindness; these glaucoma patients are described in the tables as the blind group. ...
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 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 around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctors patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This 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 been quarantined. Hygiene, living conditions, and morale ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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…
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.. ...
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.. ...
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 ...
Importance: The number of individuals with visual impairment and blindness is increasing in the United States and around the globe as a result of shifting demographics and aging populations. Tracking the number and characteristics of individuals with VI and blindness is especially important given the negative effect of these conditions on physical and mental health.. Objectives: To determine the demographic and geographic variations in visual impairment and blindness in adults in the U.S. population in 2015 and to estimate the projected prevalence through 2050.. Design, Setting, and Participants: In this population-based, cross-sectional [i.e., at one specific point in time] study, data were pooled from adults 40 years and older from six major population-based studies on visual impairment and blindness in the United States. Prevalence of visual impairment and blindness were reported by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and per-capita prevalence by state using the U.S. Census projections (January 1, ...
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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.
Abstract: Change blindness refers to human inability to recognize large visual changes between images. In this paper, we present the first computational model of change blindness to quantify the degree of blindness between an image pair. It comprises a novel context-dependent saliency model and a measure of change, the former dependent on the site of the change, and the latter describing the amount of change. This saliency model in particular addresses the influence of background complexity, which plays an important role in the phenomenon of change blindness. Using the proposed computational model, we are able to synthesize changed images with desired degrees of blindness. User studies and comparisons to state-of-the-art saliency models demonstrate the effectiveness of our model ...
Researchers funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) have reversed congenital blindness in mice by changing supportive cells in the retina called Müller glia into rod photoreceptors. The findings advance efforts toward regenerative therapies for blinding diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. A report of the findings appears online today in Nature. NEI is part of the National Institutes of Health.. This is the first report of scientists reprogramming Müller glia to become functional rod photoreceptors in the mammalian retina, said Thomas N. Greenwell, Ph.D., NEI program director for retinal neuroscience. Rods allow us to see in low light, but they may also help preserve cone photoreceptors, which are important for color vision and high visual acuity. Cones tend to die in later-stage eye diseases. If rods can be regenerated from inside the eye, this might be a strategy for treating diseases of the eye that affect photoreceptors.. Photoreceptors are ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Cortical blindness and Anton syndrome in a patient with obstetric hemorrhage. AU - Argenta, Peter A. AU - Morgan, Mark A.. PY - 1998/5. Y1 - 1998/5. N2 - Background: Cortical blindness is characterized by loss of vision in the presence of intact anterior visual pathways. Anton syndrome, a form of anosognosia, is a rare complication of cortical blindness involving compromise of the visual association centers, with resulting patient denial of blindness. Both syndromes have been associated with computed tomography findings of localized cortical ischemia. In most cases, both the clinical and radiologic features are reversible. Case: A woman with hemorrhage from an incomplete abortion at 21 weeks experienced cortical blindness and visual anosognosia. Conclusion: Cortical blindness and anosognosia are unusual manifestations of severe hemorrhage but should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a patient with atypical visual symptoms.. AB - Background: Cortical blindness is ...
Welcome to our public face blindness (prosopagnosia) discussion forum.Face blind people, family members, friends, researchers, counselors, faculty, and students are all welcome here!Appropriate topics here are questions about face blindness, living with face blindness, research youre doing, subjects you might be seeking, or news about face blindness research, news coverage, etc. Some face blind people who receive posts here may respond to you directly, rather than posting here. To assure that those of you who are subscribers receive only on-topic mail, submissions are moderated but should propagate within a few hours. When you first post, we ask that you begin with a sentence or two introducing yourself. Things to mention might be your name, your location or university, and your involvement with face blindness (such as you have it, youre a researcher, etc.)The Yahoo interface can be confusing. We have a web page that lists our group ground rules and gives technical hints such as how to subscribe and
The prognosis of a patient with acquired cortical blindness depends largely on the original cause of the blindness. For instance, patients with bilateral occipital lesions have a much lower chance of recovering vision than patients who suffered a transient ischemic attack or women who experienced complications associated with eclampsia.[2][3] In patients with acquired cortical blindness, a permanent complete loss of vision is rare.[2] The development of cortical blindness into the milder cortical visual impairment is a more likely outcome.[2] Furthermore, some patients regain vision completely, as is the case with transient cortical blindness associated with eclampsia and the side effects of certain anti-epilepsy drugs. Recent research by Krystel R. Huxlin and others on the relearning of complex visual motion following V1 damage has offered potentially promising treatments for individuals with acquired cortical blindness.[10] These treatments focus on retraining and retuning certain intact ...
Previous research has shown that early monocular blindness from unilateral enucleation (surgical removal of one eye) results in equivalent or enhanced form perception but impairments in aspects of motion processing (see Steeves et al., 2008). To further investigate the effects of early monocular blindness on form and motion processing, we compared binocularly and monocularly viewing controls to individuals who were unilaterally enucleated within the first few years of life. Thresholds were measured on three tasks that had not before been tested in this population; 1) contrast discrimination, 2) horizontal speed discrimination, and 3) horizontal coherent motion discrimination. Preliminary data are consistent with previous research showing early monocular blindness results in equivalent or enhanced sensitivity compared to binocularly and monocularly viewing controls at some contrasts. It also results in higher motion discrimination thresholds for lower speeds and a nasalward bias in the perception ...
Purpose : To compare the probability of going blindness between low and high maximum intraocular pressure (IOP) groups in eyes with normal tension glaucoma (NTG). Methods : We retrospectively investigated 380 patients diagnosed as bilateral NTG between 1985 and 2007, and followed for at least 5 years. We reviewed the patients data of best-corrected visual acuity and visual field from our records. A cut-off value of maximum IOP was tentatively set as 18 mmHg. The blindness was defined according to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. The probabilities of blindness were calculated using Kaplan Meier life-table analyses. Results : The mean age at diagnosis was 55.8 ± 11.8 years. Men were 158, and women were 222. The mean follow-up period was 14.0 ± 5.7 years. The low IOP group included 205 patients (53.9%). Nineteen patients (5.0%) had already had unilateral blindness due to glaucoma at diagnosis. Twenty-two cases (12.6%) in the high IOP group and 16 cases (7.8%) in the low IOP group ...
The Department of Ophthalmology at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has received a $100,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases. RPB is the worlds leading voluntary organization supporting eye research. To date, the organization has awarded grants totaling $1,660,000 to UAB. January 18, 2000. BIRMINGHAM, AL - The Department of Ophthalmology at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) has received a $100,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases. RPB is the worlds leading voluntary organization supporting eye research. To date, the organization has awarded grants totaling $1,660,000 to UAB.. This continued funding of the UAB Department of Ophthalmology by Research to Prevent Blindness underscores the importance of vision research, said professor and department chairman, Dr. Lanning B. Kline. There ...
The Countess of Wessex, who is a Global Ambassador of the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness, has been in Bangladesh to visit projects and organisations working to eradicate avoidable blindness.
The global diabetic retinopathy market is anticipated to reach USD 10.08 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Rising prevalence of diabetes, growing geriatric population, and increasing prevalence of blindness due to diabetes are among the key factors anticipated to bolster market growth over the forecast period. Diabetes is amongst the leading cause of blindness in people. Blindness is caused due to leaking or rupturing of retinal blood vessels, which may be permanent or temporary in nature depending on the disease-stage. According to the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Texas, around 78.0% cases of diabetic retinopathy were reported in 2013 that may eventually lead to loss of vision. In addition, as per the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), diabetic retinopathy was amongst the leading causes of blindness in UK in 2017. Rising patient awareness levels and increasing healthcare expenditure are also among the factors ...
The global diabetic retinopathy market is anticipated to reach USD 10.08 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Rising prevalence of diabetes, growing geriatric population, and increasing prevalence of blindness due to diabetes are among the key factors anticipated to bolster market growth over the forecast period. Diabetes is amongst the leading cause of blindness in people. Blindness is caused due to leaking or rupturing of retinal blood vessels, which may be permanent or temporary in nature depending on the disease-stage. According to the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Texas, around 78.0% cases of diabetic retinopathy were reported in 2013 that may eventually lead to loss of vision. In addition, as per the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), diabetic retinopathy was amongst the leading causes of blindness in UK in 2017. Rising patient awareness levels and increasing healthcare expenditure are also among the factors ...
First Two Patients in Saudi Arabia Fitted With Argus(R) II Retinal Prosthesis LAUSANNE, Switzerland, and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 6, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE /
The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) is Australias largest independent special educator. Founded in 1860, it is also one of Australias oldest charities.. RIDBC regularly assists more than 800 children and their families and provides hearing or vision screening for thousands more. It relies heavily on fundraising and community support to continue to make a difference in the lives of these children.. What we do. RIDBC provides a wide range of leading educational programs for children with hearing and/or vision impairment, including services for children with additional disabilities.. Through the RIDBC Teleschool, RIDBC works extensively with children in regional and remote areas around Australia.. As well as conducting centres at several locations in Sydney, Newcastle and the NSW Central Coast, RIDBC provides support services in mainstream schools across Sydney.. RIDBC is strongly committed to Australias indigenous community, screening over 1200 Aboriginal children every year ...
Missouri Council of the Blind promotes the general well-being of our members and legally blind people in Missouri, and supports other programs promoting the best interests of legally blind people everywhere.
Missouri Council of the Blind promotes the general well-being of our members and legally blind people in Missouri, and supports other programs promoting the best interests of legally blind people everywhere.
Missouri Council of the Blind promotes the general well-being of our members and legally blind people in Missouri, and supports other programs promoting the best interests of legally blind people everywhere.
TY - JOUR. T1 - Spontaneous resolution of visual loss due to optic pathway meningioma. T2 - A case report and a review of the literature. AU - Pinzi, Valentina. AU - Caldiera, Valentina. AU - Schembri, Lorella. AU - Cerniauskaite, Milda. AU - Fariselli, Laura. PY - 2016/1/28. Y1 - 2016/1/28. N2 - Background/aim: Meningiomas of the anterior cranial fossa are often diagnosed after impaired visual function occurrence. Some epidemiologic studies suggest an association between exogenous or endogenous hormones and meningioma risk. The aim of this study is to briefly review the literature and relate a case report.Patient and methods: This study presents a case of a 51-year-old woman with a moderate visual loss of 6/10 and markedly constricted visual field in the right eye. A normal visual acuity and peripheral reduction of visual field in the left eye was documented. During medical interview, she reported a prolonged assumption of oral contraceptive. Her visual deterioration had progressed over the ...
India has made huge strides from 2007 to 2019 in improving vision care according to Health Ministry with a reduction of the prevalence of blindness by 47% and a reduction in visual impairment by 51.9% . India has additionally reduced the number of blind from 12 million to 4.8 million during that same period. Despite this phenomenal success, cataracts continue to be a challenge.. In those 50 to 90 years of age, cataracts contribute to 66.2% of overall blindness, 80.7% of visual impairment and 70.2% moderate visual impairment. Additional causes of blindness include glaucoma at 5.50% and corneal opacity at 7.40%. Interestingly, 7.2% of blindness in India is due to complications from cataract surgery. Improvements in the quality of cataract surgery training quality should reduce this last number.. Today, there are 116 million Indian citizens aged 60 years or older. 15.42% currently suffer from visual disabilities. By 2050 the number of Indian senior citizens will increase to 330 million. Without ...
Visually impaired people living in Hastings will benefit thanks to a grant received by a national charity.. British Wireless has recently been supported by the Magdalen and Lasher Charity.. The organisation was founded in the thirteenth century and has been assisting families, schools and people in need in Hastings since then. It has donated £1,000 to BWBF to help people living in the area with sight loss.. The money will be used to provide our popular multimedia players, the Concerto 2, to some of the towns visually impaired people. As well as an easy to use radio, the set also has a CD player, tape deck, SD card slot and USB slot for users to play their audio content in whichever format they choose.. Many visually impaired people are unable to read a newspaper or watch the television, and often spend a lot of time alone at home, so a radio is their way of accessing news, music, entertainment and information.. For many who often lead lonely lives, it can also provide companionship. British ...
Ricky Whitehead will pilot the Scottish leg of Ken Reids epic journey that will take in all five capital cities of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Were a charity and development organisation working to end avoidable blindness around the world and to improve the health of Indigenous Australians.
The major causes of severe visual impairment and blindness overall have not changed appreciably since 1995. There are important differences among countries, however, and using overall estimates for planning may be misleading.
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) accounts for approximately 15 % of congenital blindness. This largely recessively inherited disorder manifests with signs of very poor visual function and roving eye movements or nystagmus. Eye-poking or eye-rubbing, the oculodigital sign, may be present and may eventually lead to sunken orbits, cataract and keratoconus. The majority of patients have normal fundi at presentation, but disc pallor, vessel attenuation and pigmentary changes may follow. The ERG is typically severely reduced or undetectable from early infancy (Fig. 9.2B).. Was this article helpful?. ...
Cortical blindness refers to the loss of vision that occurs after destruction of the primary visual cortex. Although there is no sensory cortex and hence no conscious vision, some cortically blind patients show amygdala activation in response to facial or bodily expressions of emotion. Here we investigated whether direction of gaze could also be processed in the absence of any functional visual cortex. A well-known patient with bilateral destruction of his visual cortex and subsequent cortical blindness was investigated in an fMRI paradigm during which blocks of faces were presented either with their gaze directed toward or away from the viewer. Increased right amygdala activation was found in response to directed compared with averted gaze. Activity in this region was further found to be functionally connected to a larger network associated with face and gaze processing. The present study demonstrates that, in human subjects, the amygdala response to eye contact does not require an intact ...
The word blindness refers to a range of visual impairments that cause a severe to total reduction of the experience of sight. It is also charged as a metaphor, blindness being a synonym of ignorance or not-knowing. Over the ages, both meanings got also mixed up, whether deliberately or out of convenience, blindness was romanticised and invested with misconceptions. And more recently in cultural theory, the blind spot has become an omnipresent metaphor to reflect upon the limitations of our perception, knowledge and opinions. Yet it is not my aim here to deconstruct the term blindness and apply a strategy against interpretation to it. Rather to explore its potential within the field of the performing arts, through a series of dialogues with artists. Interestingly, a large number of dancers and choreographers have broached the issue in the past decades: through working with blind people, as Anne Kilcoyne and Steve Paxton in Touchdown Dance (since 1986) or Wim Vandekeybus in Her Body ...
Prevention of Blindness Week is a Government supported initiative, observed in India by raising awareness of the precautions which need to be taken to prevent blindness. It focuses on detection, cure and treatment of eye diseases. In schools and villages, adults and children will be educated about the importance of eye hygiene. Eye check-up camps are organised in cities and villages across the nation.. The major causes of blindness in India today are trachoma, cataract, vitamin A deficiency, malnutrition and a shortage of optometry services.. Cataracts, a disease of poverty, cause half of all blindness on earth. In the developed world, people with cataracts get treatment in a timely fashion and generally do not suffer blindness as a result. In the developing world, people with cataracts routinely go blind. A simple operation is the difference.. Specsavers Ireland have supported HOPE to roll out a Blindness Eradication Programme across street and slum communities and schools through community ...
Privacy is the main issue when voting as a visually impaired/blind person. Every person who considers voting a privilege and civic duty is entitled to complete the voting process in a private manner. Read about my voting experience as a blind person. - Voting Experience Visually Impaired Blind Person - Vision Issues at BellaOnline
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The Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness is the essential professional resource for information about visual impairment (that is, blindness or low vision). The international peer-reviewed journal of record in the field, it delivers current research and best practice information, commentary from authoritative experts on critical topics, News From the Field, and a calendar of important events.. Practitioners and researchers, policymakers and administrators, counselors and advocates rely on JVIB for its delivery of cutting-edge research and the most up-to-date practices in the field of visual impairment and blindness. Available in print and online 24/7, JVIB offers immediate access to information from the leading researchers, teachers of students with visual impairments (often referred to as TVIs), orientation and mobility (O&M) practitioners, vision rehabilitation therapists (often referred to as VRTs), early interventionists, and low vision therapists (often referred to as LVTs) in the ...
Baltimore, Maryland (February 3, 2009): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest organization of blind people in the United States, will administer the Onkyo Braille Literacy Essay Contest in the U.S. on behalf of the North American-Caribbean Region of the World Blind Union. The essay contest, sponsored by Onkyo Corporation, a Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer, and the Braille Mainichi, part of the Mainichi Newspaper Company in Japan, was created to promote Braille literacy and to encourage the sharing of social and cultural information among blind and visually impaired persons. Blind or visually impaired persons in the United States or Canada are eligible to apply.. The essays must be written in Braille and must pertain either to how the individual gains knowledge or independence through Braille or to an individual concept about world peace from the viewpoint of persons with disabilities. There will be two groups of competitors: a junior category for persons ...
The National Blindness Professional Certification Board (NBPCB) was created to certify qualified specialists in work with the blind. At present, the Certification Board oversees four certifications - the National Orientation and Mobility Certification (NOMC), the National Certification in Rehabilitation Teaching for the Blind (NCRTB), the National Certification in Literary Braille (NCLB), and the National Certification in Unified English Braille (NCUEB).. The National Orientation and Mobility Certification (NOMC) emphasizes nonvisual instruction, and Structured Discovery Cane Travel ™.. The National Certification in Rehabilitation Teaching for the Blind (NCRTB) emphasizes nonvisual instruction through Structured Discovery Rehabilitation Teaching methods and principles.. The National Certification in Literary Braille (NCLB) is specifically intended for teachers working with blind children or adults. All those who are certified will hold valid certification until their expiration date; however, ...
Definition: A child with a Visual Impairment, including Blindness shall have a deficiency in visual acuity and/or visual field and/or visual functioning where, even with the use of lenses or corrective devices, he/she is prevented from receiving reasonable educational benefit from general education.. Children and youth with visual impairment, including blindness in Colorado have access to a range of services for their education and social support. The majority of students with visual impairment, including blindness attend a public school in Colorado. Close to 60 students are served at the Colorado School for the Blind, which is located on the campus of the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind in Colorado Springs. Almost every Colorado administrative unit has employed or has contract access to a teacher of students with visual impairment (TVI) and a certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist. These individuals work with other educational team members to ensure that the students with ...
The World Sight Day Challenge, slated to take place on October 9, 2014 is an annual awareness day that aims to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment worldwide.. The day aims to create awareness that blindness can be avoided if there is universal access to quality vision and eye care services for all those in need. Worldwide, many cases of vision impairment are simply due to the lack of a pair of eye glasses that would help correct a refractive error. The underlying vision of the campaign is to ensure that the quality-of-life and future livelihood of children and adults is not impacted because they do not have sufficient eye care.. According to Optometry Giving Sight, the organization overseeing the campaign, over 600 million people around the globe do not have access to the eye care and eyewear they need. As the ability to see well impacts every aspect of life and empowers adults and children alike to succeed at school or work, eye care from trained eye care professionals not ...
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Presentation of the etiology, diagnosis, possible complications and treatment of amaurosis fugax. amaurosis fugax is a transient monocular loss of vision, usually affecting the entire visual field. Amaurosis fugax is caused by transient retinal ischemia resulting from embolism, hemodynamic insufficiency or ocular vascular disease. In view of the high complication rate (annual blindness rate 1%, annual risk of an ischemic insult 2%, myocardial infarction 30%, and an 18% mortality rate), an immediate search for the underlying causes is mandatory. Diagnostic evaluation should include ophthalmological, neurological and cardiovascular investigations. Management of amaurosis fugax comprises, in the first instance, treatment of the underlying disease and administration of anti-platelet agents. In cases in which stenosis of extracranial vessels presents, endarterectomy may sometimes be considered. ...
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Purpose : Mutations in the KCNJ13 gene, encoding the inwardly rectifying potassium Kir7.1 ion-channel in the RPE, cause autosomal dominant snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration (SVD) and autosomal recessive Lebers congenital amaurosis (LCA16). Molecular and biophysical analysis of the mutant protein revealed a non-functional protein product. With a goal of restoring retinal function via gene augmentation therapy, we tested the efficacy of Kir7.1 channel functional rescue using an in vitro model of CHO cells expressing disease - associated mutations. Methods : We cloned human Kir7.1-WT (wild-type) and W53X (mutant) into Flip-In™ expression vector (ThermoFisher Scientific) and transfected them into Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells to express the protein products. Expression of Kir7.1 was verified through PCR and Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. Whole-cell configuration of patch-clamp technology was used to measure Kir7.1 current. Protein expression was confirmed by ...
Legal Blindness in the United States, where normal vision is considered to be 20/20, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity with best correction in the better eye worse than or equal to 20/200 or a visual field extent of less than 20 degrees in diameter. Most states use these standards to provide rehabilitation services and benefits to people who are visually impaired. Some of these benefits and services include an IRS income tax exemption, free telephone directory assistance, free Talking Book Library Services through the National Library Service and Vocational and Independent Living Services through individual state programs. Please note the term Legal Blindness does not mean that a legally blind person is blind or has no usable vision. Most people defined as legally blind have usable vision and can perform most daily tasks with the use of special glasses or low vision aids ...
Several studies have shown that rehabilitation can augment the brains inherent plasticity (Eickhoff et al., 2008; Kao et al., 2011; Martinez et al., 2009; Merabet & Pascual-Leone, 2010; Schlaug et al., 2009; Schneeberger et al., 2006, 2007). We are only beginning to understand how this finding applies to the use of AVDs in the field of artificial vision. New vision technology and efforts at ocular regeneration offer the eventual promise of meaningful improvement in the lives of people who are blind. However, this burgeoning field risks failure unless appropriate rehabilitative components are developed and multidisciplinary involvement occurs. Our results show that without instruction, the blind participants performed no better than chance when using the BrainPort vision device. However, after even a short amount of directed training in core skill acquisition, performance on the majority of outcomes significantly improved. Moreover, the scores for object and word recognition continued to improve ...
While some people may worship sun, sand, and beaches, youd trade all of that away in exchange for a day on the slopes. Winters your season - the snow is fresh, theres always a mug of hot cocoa to enjoy, and theres nothing better than cozying up in a warm sweater.. Before you start making the most of winter, however, its important to be aware of one of the biggest dangers to your eyesight this winter…Snow blindness.. What is Snow Blindness?. Snow blindness - also known as photokeratits - is a painful, potentially severe eye condition that occurs when your eyes come into contact with UV rays. The reason why this condition became known as snow blindness is because UV rays bounce off the surface of snow, thus increasing the strength of the UV rays. When these rays hit your eyes, they burn the surface layer of the cornea.. Snow blindness can also refer to what happens when your eyes are exposed to too much cold, dry air. The corneas surface can freeze when in contact with cold, dry air for ...
The importance of plants is not as clearly understood as that of animals. This lack of attention is called plant blindness and is considered one of the most important problems in biology education. Textbooks do not put much emphasis on plants and, therefore, they may contribute to plant blindness. In this research, ten textbooks used for teaching at the basic education level in Turkey were analyzed for plant blindness using the document analysis method. The words and photographs associated with plants and animals were analyzed. The data analysis did not find any evidence that could lead to a conclusion of plant blindness based on the text and photos of these textbooks. However, if the number of plant and animal species covered is increased, and more words and photos are used to introduce these species, children will become more familiar with plants and animals. Besides textbooks, other educational tools can be analyzed in terms of plant blindness to expand on the related literature.. ...
The first part of the study is observational, in which the body clock rhythms of blind individuals are assessed for variability in patterns across subjects. The second part of the study involves a melatonin treatment (0.025-20 mg). The dose for each subject will be determined by the previous, observational data collected on the specifics of their individual body clock. The purpose of the intervention is to find an optimized dosing regimen and administration time to synchronize the body clocks of blind individuals, that seem to operate independent of the 24-hour environmental light/dark cycle, to the 24-hour day ...
The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled (MVT) is the latest addition to the body of international copyright treaties administered by WIPO. It has a clear humanitarian and social development dimension and its main goal is to create a set of mandatory limitations and exceptions for the benefit of the blind, visually impaired and otherwise print disabled (VIPs).. It requires Contracting Parties to introduce a standard set of limitations and exceptions to copyright rules in order to permit reproduction, distribution and making available of published works in formats designed to be accessible to VIPs, and to permit exchange of these works across borders by organizations that serve those beneficiaries.. The Treaty clarifies that beneficiary persons are those affected by a range of disabilities that interfere with the effective reading of printed material. The broad definition includes persons who are blind, ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Change blindness. AU - Simons, Daniel J.. AU - Levin, Daniel T.. PY - 1997/10. Y1 - 1997/10. N2 - Although at any instant we experience a rich, detailed visual world, we do not use such visual details to form a stable representation across views. Over the past five years, researchers have focused increasingly on change blindness (the inability to detect changes to an object or scene) as a means to examine the nature of our representations. Experiments using a diverse range of methods and displays have produced strikingly similar results: unless a change to a visual scene produces a localizable change or transient at a specific position on the retina, generally, people will not detect it. We review theory and research motivating work on change blindness and discuss recent evidence that people are blind to changes occurring in photographs, in motion pictures and even in real-world interactions. These findings suggest that relatively little visual information is preserved from one ...
Vietnamese doctors watch a TV screen as Dr. James Brandt performs surgery on a one-month-old child suffering from sever glaucoma in both eyes at the Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital on Thursday, April 17, 2008...ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital brought doctors, nurses and specialists from all over the world to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from April 7-18, 2008. The ORBIS program contributed to the efforts of Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital in fighting avoidable blindness by educating local ophthalmologists to diagnose and manage pediatric blindness, retinal disease, oculoplastics, and blindness due to glaucoma.
... result in blindness or severe visual impairment that are likely to be permanent blindness later in life. Congenital blindness ... Congenital blindness refers to a group of diseases and conditions occurring in childhood or early adolescence of below 16 years ... For pregnant women from family with history of congenital blindness will be closely monitor and need to carry out genetic test ... "Genetic Eye Disorders & Blindness Causes , Cleveland Clinic: Health Library". Cleveland Clinic. Retrieved 2019-04-14. Yorston, ...
... is the failure to recognize a second happening of a visual display. The two displays are shown ... Repetition blindness (RB) is a phenomenon observed in rapid serial visual presentation. People are sometimes poor at ... This task is known as the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). Repetition blindness is present if missing the second word ... However, Whittlesea and colleagues have argued that repetition blindness arises from a failure to properly reconstruct the list ...
Several concerns exist regarding the potential effects of plant blindness. Most notably, plant blindness may lead to less ... may also cultivate plant blindness. Plant blindness is also partially attributed to increased urbanization, which has led to ... Plant blindness is an informally-proposed form of cognitive bias, which in its broadest meaning, is a human tendency to ignore ... Plant blindness is also thought to have led to a deficit in plant science research and education. Plant science research has ...
While it is caused by bright light similar to flash blindness, the welder's arc lasts for much longer than flash blindness and ... It is unclear whether pain is directly associated with flash blindness.[citation needed] Reaction to flash blindness can be ... Flash blindness may also occur in everyday life. For example, the subject of a flash photograph can be temporarily flash ... Flash blindness is caused by bleaching (oversaturation) of the retinal pigment. As the pigment returns to normal, so too does ...
Examples of change blindness Ten demos of change blindness at the University of British Columbia (requires QuickTime) Demos at ... In addition to change blindness induced by changes in visual images, change blindness also exists for the other senses: Change ... This development in change blindness research was able to show the effects of change blindness in more realistic settings. ... The phenomenon of change blindness has practical implications in the following areas: Research in change blindness has ...
... is an important contribution to the national prevalence of the disability of blindness. Blindness in ...
"How to combat banner blindness in digital advertising". Marketing Tech News. Retrieved 2016-11-07. "Banner Blindness, ... The term banner blindness was coined in 1998 as a result of website usability tests where a majority of the test subjects ... Banner blindness is a phenomenon in web usability where visitors to a website consciously or unconsciously ignore banner-like ... A broader term covering all forms of advertising is ad blindness, and the mass of banners that people ignore is called banner ...
... or fleeting blindness Conversion disorder, formerly called hysterical blindness Flash blindness, caused by exposure to high- ... Blindness (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Temporary blindness. If an ... Temporary blindness, a type of non-permanent vision loss, may refer to: Amaurosis fugax, ...
... or Wilful blindness is sometimes called ignorance of law,: 761 willful ignorance, contrived ignorance, ... Willful blindness is a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability ... The court held that this was willful blindness on the defendant's part and would not constitute a defense to a claim of ... Willful blindness per the IRS IRM Manual (Articles with short description, Short description matches Wikidata, Articles needing ...
Red-green color blindness is the most common form, followed by blue-yellow color blindness and total color blindness. Red-green ... Screening for color blindness is typically done with the Ishihara color test. There is no cure for color blindness. Diagnosis ... Non-color-blind females can carry genes for color blindness and pass them on to their children. Color blindness can also result ... Total color blindness (monochromacy) is much less common than partial color blindness. Partial colorblindness includes ...
Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008. Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness ... Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José ... "Blindness Characters". GradeSaver. Chang, Justin (2008-05-14). "Blindness Movie Review". Variety. Retrieved 2008-05-14. "Patti ... BLINDNESS was adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Walter Meierjohann. Juliet Stevenson voiced the Doctor's Wife. Novels ...
Look up blindness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blindness is a visual condition. Blindness may also refer to: Blindness ( ... "Blindness", a song by Metric from the 2009 album Fantasies Blindness Records List of blindness effects Mind-blindness, a ... a 1926 novel by English author Henry Green Blindness (2008 film), a 2008 film adaptation of the 1995 novel Blindness (2016 film ... All pages with titles containing blindness This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Blindness. If an ...
... can be acquired or congenital, and may also be transient in certain instances. Acquired cortical blindness ... Fundoscopy should be normal in cases of cortical blindness. Cortical blindness can be associated with visual hallucinations, ... in which vision in the fovea is spared from the blindness. The most common cause of cortical blindness is ischemia (oxygen ... The prognosis of a patient with acquired cortical blindness depends largely on the original cause of the blindness. For ...
... , mindblindness or mind blindness is a theory initially developed in 1990 that explains autistic people as having ... mind-blindness has been generally rejected by the scientific community. Mind-blindness is defined as a state where the ToM has ... Mind-blindness, a lack of ToM, was later theorised to be equivalent to a lack of empathy, although research published a year ... Mind-blindness in autistic people, in the theory considered a lack of ToM, implies being unable to predict behavior and ...
The 5th Dimension, "Sweet Blindness" single release Retrieved January 17, 2015. The 5th Dimension, "Sweet Blindness" Chart ... "Sweet Blindness" is a song written by Laura Nyro, released in 1968, and included on her Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. The ... Outside the US, "Sweet Blindness" went to #15 in Canada and #19 in Australia. Holly Cole released a version of the song on the ...
... at IMDb allmovie/synopsis: Love's Blindness v t e (Articles with short description, Short ... Love's Blindness is a 1926 silent film directed by John Francis Dillon. The film stars Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, and ... De Jainon Ned Sparks - Valet Listing of incomplete MGM films at Nitrateville Love's Blindness at silentera.com database The ...
... , also known as ethical blindness, is defined as a person's temporary inability to see the ethical aspect of a ... Larsen, Rasmus Rosenberg (2020-09-01). "Psychopathy as moral blindness: a qualifying exploration of the blindness-analogy in ... Moral blindness has been studied and applied in a range of domains beyond war crimes, politics, and administration. A major ... Moral blindness has been identified as being a concern in areas such as business organisation and legal systems. Moral ...
... is an outmoded term for a condition now designated as a form of conversion disorder. Hysterical Blindness ... "Hysterical Blindness" (Heroes), an episode of the TV show Heroes This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the ... title Hysterical Blindness. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ... may also refer to: Hysterical Blindness (film), an HBO movie from 2002 starring Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis " ...
... often lead to severe vision loss or complete blindness. The Foundation Fighting Blindness was founded as the National Retinitis ... Race to Cure Blindness is a fundraising program where participants utilize any marathon, triathlon, bike race, or other racing ... The Foundation Fighting Blindness hosts approximately 10 annual Dining in the Dark fundraising events in various cities around ... The Foundation Fighting Blindness currently funds more than 120 grants, including the modules of 14 Centers. The research ...
... - official site Notes on Blindness at BBC Online Notes on Blindness at IMDb v t e (Use British English from ... Notes on Blindness is a 2016 British documentary film directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney. The film profiles writer ... Robey, Tim (30 June 2016). "Notes on Blindness is one of the most eye-opening documentaries you'll see all year - review". The ... An Experience of Blindness in 1990. The film won the British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary and received ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blindness (film). Blindness at IMDb Blindness at AllMovie Blindness at Box Office Mojo ... "BLINDNESS"!". "Blindness (2008) Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 22, 2020. "Blindness (2008)". Rotten ... Blindness is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. The film is an ... dead link]"Blindness Protests". The Associated Press. 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2008-10-01. "Author decries Blindness protests as ...
Causes of blindness in animals Blindness in animals can be caused be the result of environmental adaptations over time, or due ... Blindness at birth serves to preserve the young who are dependent on their parents. (If they could see, they could wander off ... For this reason, blindness in animals is a unique topic of study. In general, nocturnal or subterranean animals have less ... Sudden acquired retinal degeneration, a disease that causes blindness in dogs Ruhberg, H.; Mesibov, R.; Briscoe, D. A.; Tait, N ...
"The statue of 'Victory over Blindness'". BBC News. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018. "Victory Over Blindness ... Victory Over Blindness is a bronze sculpture in Manchester, England, by Johanna Domke-Guyot. It is on Piccadilly Approach ... Victory Over Blindness "Statue of blinded soldiers commemorating the end of WWI to be unveiled in Manchester". Blind Veterans ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victory Over Blindness. Coordinates: 53°28′40″N 2°13′53″W / 53.4779°N 2.2315°W / ...
Motion Induced Blindness (MIB) is a phenomenon of visual disappearance or perceptual illusions observed in the lab, in which ... Motion-induced blindness was originally discovered by Grindley and Townsend in 1965, followed by Ramachandran and Gregory in ... Bonneh, Y. S.; Donner, T. H.; Sagi, D.; Fried, M.; Cooperman, A.; Heeger, D. J.; Arieli, A. (2010). "Motion-induced blindness ... Graf, E. W.; Adams, W. J.; Lages, M. (November 2002). "Modulating motion-induced blindness with depth ordering and surface ...
"Recovery from Early Blindness". Retrieved 2010-05-04. "recovery from blindness: Information from Answers.com". Answers.com. ... Recovery from blindness is the phenomenon of a blind person gaining the ability to see, usually as a result of medical ... May's early blindness benefited him so far; he developed very precise senses of hearing and touch. In 2006, journalist Robert ... May had a stem-cell transplant in his right eye in 2001 when he was 43, after 40 years of blindness. He reportedly has adapted ...
"Hysterical Blindness". The A.V. Club. Retrieved November 17, 2013. Hysterical Blindness at IMDb (Articles with short ... "Hysterical Blindness" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the NBC superhero drama series Heroes and sixty-third ... "Hysterical Blindness" was watched by 5.6 million viewers. This represented no increase from its previous week's ratings. The ... "Hysterical Blindness" includes a kiss between Claire Bennett (Hayden Panettiere) and new character Gretchen Berg (Madeline Zima ...
New York in the 1960s: Sun Blindness Music, better known as Sun Blindness Music, is an album by John Cale released in 2001. It ... "Sun Blindness Music" - 42:44 "Summer Heat" - 11:07 "The Second Fortress" - 10:38 Sun Blindness Music, the set's centerpiece, is ... Sun Blindness Music at AllMusic Pitchfork Media review (Use dmy dates from April 2022, Articles needing additional references ... Reviewer Thom Jurek notes that "Sun Blindness Music is easily the most demanding and perhaps most rewarding piece on the disc ...
Hysterical Blindness at AllMovie Hysterical Blindness at IMDb (Articles with short description, Short description is different ... "Hysterical Blindness". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 22, 2022. Leonard, John (August 15, 2002). "Hysterical Blindness". ... Gore, Chris (December 10, 2001). "Hysterical Blindness". Film Threat. Retrieved October 22, 2022. "Hysterical Blindness". ... Hysterical Blindness is a 2002 American television drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Laura Cahill, based on her ...
The subject of blindness and education has included evolving approaches and public perceptions of how best to address the ... Category:Blindness organizations Category:Schools for the blind Braille music Nico (also known as Nicholas), a TV series for ... They were not exclusively interested in the causes and cures for blindness but also the social care of the individual. An early ... Though New York Point was widely accepted for a time, Braille has since emerged the victor in what some blindness historians ...
Color-blindness can be seen as a way to undermine the hardships of minority groups, as it used to argue that the United States ... Color blindness is a term that has been used by justices of the United States Supreme Court in several opinions relating to ... Racial or color blindness reflects an ideal in the society in which skin color is insignificant. The ideal was most articulated ... He saw "color-blindness" as an ideology that undercuts the legal and political foundation of integration and affirmative action ...
It is also called river blindness because the fly that transmits infection breeds in rapidly flowing streams, mostly near ... The most serious manifestation consists of lesions in the eye that can lead to visual impairment and blindness. ... Blindness is usually seen in the setting of longstanding and intense infection. ... Onchocerciasis is the second leading infectious cause of blindness and can cause debilitating and disfiguring skin disease. ...
Red-green color blindness is the most common form, followed by blue-yellow color blindness and total color blindness.[2] Red- ... Red-green color blindness[edit]. Red-green color blindness includes protan and deutan CVD. Protan CVD is related to the L-cone ... Blue-yellow color blindness[edit]. Blue-yellow color blindness includes tritan CVD. Tritan CVD is related to the S-cone and ... Color blindness may be a side effect of prescription drug use. For example, red-green color blindness can be caused by ...
Prevent Blindness is the nations leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and ... Prevalence Rates of Vision and Eye Health Disorders, Vision Loss, and Blindness in the U.S. *The National Vision and Eye Health ... Prevent Blindness Model Childrens Vision Legislation. *Vision Screening Recommendations *Children Who Should By-Pass Vision ... Prevalence Rates of Vision and Eye Health Disorders, Vision Loss, and Blindness in the U.S.. ...
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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... MMWR 31(41);561-2 Publication date: 10/22/1982. Table of Contents. Article. ... The need for blindness prevention has led to a renewed interest in trachoma and associated infections, which are still the most ... Estimate endorsed by the WHO Programme Advisory Group on the Prevention of Blindness in February 1982.. References. *World ... Such communities are likely to be found in countries where blindness rates are above the range of 0.5%-1%, and where more than ...
Onchocerciasis (River Blindness). Sharon L. Roy, Christine Dubray. INFECTIOUS AGENT. Onchocerca volvulus, a filarial nematode. ... which can progress to visual loss and blindness. Symptoms begin after patent infections are established, which may take 18 ...
Blindness and visual impairment remain a public health problem in many Member States in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. As ... Blindness and visual impairment remain a public health problem in many Member States in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. As ... Visual impairment and blindness and their causes have been estimated, globally and by WHO region from recent data. Recent ... The major causes of visual impairment are uncorrected refractive errors (43%) and cataract (33%). The main cause of blindness ...
How Does Leptospirosis Cause Both Blindness and Abortion?. The same bacterium causes two very different conditions in horses. ...
Overview on Deaf-Blindness Introduction to Deaf-Blindness (Foundational Knowledge in Deaf-Blindness Modules). Type: Self-Guided ... Deaf-Blindness for Early Intervention Practitioners Course. Type: Module CEs: None Cost: Free Organization: Virginia Early ... Introduction to Vision Loss (Foundational Knowledge in Deaf-Blindness Modules). Type: Self-Guided Module CEs: None Cost: Free. ... Piaget (Foundational Knowledge in Deaf-Blindness Modules). Type: Self-Guided Module CEs: None Cost: Free. Organization: NCDB ...
River Blindness (Onchocerciasis)IntroductionDisease History, Characteristics, and TransmissionScope and DistributionTreatment ... and PreventionImpacts and IssuesBIBLIOGRAPHY Source for information on River Blindness (Onchocerciasis): Infectious Diseases: ... River Blindness , River blindness is a disease responsible for a high incidence of partial or total blindness in parts of ... River blindness is the second leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. (Trachoma is the leading cause of blindness.) ...
Learn about symptoms and signs associated with face blindness. Symptoms and signs include poor recognition of familiar people ... Main Article on Face Blindness Symptoms and Signs. * Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia). Face blindness (prosopagnosia) is a ... Causes of face blindness. Stroke, degenerative brain diseases, or trauma to the brain may all be causes of face blindness. ... Face blindness refers to a disorder within the brain that causes the inability to recognize faces. Medically, face blindness is ...
What Causes Blindness?. Vision problems can develop before a baby is born. Sometimes, parts of the eyes dont form the way they ... Blindness also can be caused by an accident, if something hurts the eye. Thats why its so important to protect your eyes when ... Blindness can be genetic (or inherited), which means that this problem gets passed down to a kid from parents through genes. ... Other eye diseases, such as cataracts (say: KAH-tuh-rakts), can cause vision problems or blindness, but they usually affect ...
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Motion-Induced Blindness. October 5, 2013 4:45 PM Subscribe. Motion-Induced Blindness plus 105 other Visual Phenomena & Optical ... motion-induced blindness: that time in the army when we went down a skihill on a steel bed frame except that it was past end of ... Check out this motion-induced blindness and these FPPs that also link to michaelbach.de.. posted by Nomyte at 9:02 PM on ... The motion induced blindness one is a little weird for me - First just one dot disappears than BAM! the other two are gone too. ...
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For me, face blindness means being a little people blind. I will see a person who seems to know me, and I will greet them ... "So curing face blindness isnt exactly the top priority?" I ask.. "Some people have tried giving prosopagnosiacs oxytocin - ... I first learned about face blindness in 2010, when I read an article by Oliver Sacks in the New Yorker. Like me, Sacks had long ... How many friendships had I missed out on because of my face blindness? How many do I still miss out on, despite my high-caliber ...
... to identify a new biomarker for the diagnosis of river blindness.1 ... River blindness affects 37 million people worldwide and is focused specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South ... to identify a new biomarker for the diagnosis of river blindness.1 The discovery is an important step towards the development ... to identify a new biomarker for the diagnosis of river blindness.1 ...
Causes of Blindness in Cats. Blindness in cats can be either sudden, when some type of trauma or sudden illness causes the loss ... Treatment of Blindness in Cats. Treating blindness will be different in each case, depending upon its cause. Glaucoma and high ... Diagnosing Blindness. Diagnosis is directly related to the cause. However, in order to determine if blindness is present and ... Signs of Blindness. It can sometimes be difficult to determine if your cat has lost his sight. Some of the signs to be aware of ...
1 cause of legal blindness in adults over 60, is a progressive eye condition affecting as many as one in three adults. The ... "Research points to this as a pathway to regulate and prevent this most common cause of blindness in adults," said Murray ... Study: Drug may delay, prevent blindness for millions of older Americans Peer-Reviewed Publication Lindsay, Ston & Briggs ... Wisconsin Genomics Initiative, and others, Research to Prevent Blindness, BrightFocus Foundation, Edward N. and Della L. Thome ...
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  • It is also called river blindness because the fly that transmits infection breeds in rapidly flowing streams, mostly near remote rural villages, and the disease that is caused by O. volvulus following repeated bites from infected blackflies can lead to blindness. (cdc.gov)
  • Hence, the alternative name- river blindness -for the condition. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The threat of river blindness led to mass migration of people in West Africa away from areas infested with the black fly . (encyclopedia.com)
  • Fortunately, the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin can be used to treat river blindness. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Mass treatment programs have decreased the burden of river blindness in recent years. (encyclopedia.com)
  • River blindness, known clinically as oncocerciasis, is caused by a tiny parasitic worm called Onchocerca volvulus . (encyclopedia.com)
  • River blindness does not always cause any symptoms. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Transmission of river blindness occurs when someone is bitten by an infected black fly. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Unlike malaria, which can be transmitted by just a single mosquito bite, it usually takes several black fly bites to transmit river blindness. (encyclopedia.com)
  • River blindness is the second leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. (encyclopedia.com)
  • According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 120 million people worldwide are at risk of river blindness. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In Africa, 30 countries in equatorial West, Central, and East Africa are affected by river blindness-areas where there are the fast-running rivers and streams frequented by Simulium black flies. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Because infection with river blindness normally requires several bites, it is the populations of these countries, rather than visitors, who are most affected. (encyclopedia.com)
  • There are no vaccines against river blindness. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Insecticides can help control black flies in areas where river blindness is a problem. (encyclopedia.com)
  • River blindness has therefore proved a severe obstacle to socioeconomic development in many African countries. (encyclopedia.com)
  • River blindness affects 37 million people worldwide and is focused specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America and Yemen. (chromatographyonline.com)
  • BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA… Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today congratulated President Juan Manuel Santos and the people of Colombia for becoming the first of six countries in the Americas to eliminate river blindness. (cartercenter.org)
  • River blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, is a parasitic disease that can cause intense itching, eyesight damage, and irreversible blindness. (cartercenter.org)
  • River blindness is transmitted by small black flies that breed in rapidly flowing rivers. (cartercenter.org)
  • Colombia Minister of Health and Social Protection Dr. Alejandro Gaviria Uribe, President Carter, and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter were joined at the ceremony by representatives of the Colombia government, the Carter Center's River Blindness Elimination Program and the Carter Center's OEPA, Colombia's National Institute of Health, and partners including the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Merck/MSD, the Lions Clubs International Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (cartercenter.org)
  • Colombia is the first country in the Americas to eliminate river blindness and is the first country in the world to apply for and be granted verification of elimination of river blindness by the World Health Organization (WHO). (cartercenter.org)
  • Colombia, together with its partners OEPA and PAHO, which is a regional body of the WHO, eliminated river blindness using a strategy of twice per year community-wide administration of the medicine ivermectin (Mectizan®, donated by Merck) to all people in the afflicted area. (cartercenter.org)
  • Community leaders and promoters in the formerly river blindness endemic area known as López de Micay played a critical role in success of the program. (cartercenter.org)
  • Together, the community encouraged local participation in river blindness prevention events and activities and disseminated health information. (cartercenter.org)
  • The Colombia river blindness program did more than just rid the country of a horrible disease. (cartercenter.org)
  • The river blindness elimination program ended a disease and created hope," said Alba Lucia Morales, health education adviser with the Center's OEPA and a Colombian national who has observed development in the formerly endemic area over nearly two decades. (cartercenter.org)
  • Since 1996, the Carter Center's peace and health programs have partnered with the Colombian people to improve health and prevent and resolve conflicts by hosting dialogue forums to reduce tensions between neighboring countries, awarding local journalism fellowships to reduce the stigma of mental illness, and breaking the cycle of transmission for river blindness. (cartercenter.org)
  • Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is the world's third-leading infectious cause of blindness. (europa.eu)
  • According to the researchers, combination therapy with ivermectin for selected indications, not mass treatment, will deliver a short-term impact while providing a framework for the longer term vision of integrated chemotherapy-vaccine control of river blindness. (europa.eu)
  • The researchers and medical experts have been trying to tackle river blindness in Cameroon and sub-Saharan Africa for more than two decades. (europa.eu)
  • SCOOTT member Dr Nicholas Tendongfor of the Research Foundation in Tropical Diseases and Environment in Cameroon has confirmed an 80% drop in river blindness cases in areas where doxycycline has been administered, with the cure duration being 42 days for a patient. (europa.eu)
  • River blindness is caused by a parasitical worm, Onchocerca volvulus. (europa.eu)
  • Latest data show that river blindness affects around 18 million people in Africa and South America, and experts say that if people are infected at birth, it is common for them to become blind by the time they reach their 40s. (europa.eu)
  • A three-day meeting of the WHO African Program for Onchocerciasis (River blindness) Control (WHO/APOC) opened in Abuja, Nigeria, on Tuesday, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (12/8). (kff.org)
  • With five years to the projected attainment of the MDGs by 2015, the JAF session in Nigeria presents health Ministers with an opportunity to chart a way forward towards the elimination of river blindness as one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases, which cause reduction in agricultural productivity, exacerbate poverty and impede development. (kff.org)
  • Danjuma "urged Nigeria, which has [approximately] one-third of the total number of people at risk of river blindness in Africa, to donate handsomely towards … the elimination of the disease from Africa," the news service writes (12/8). (kff.org)
  • The microfiliae have been found in all parts of the eye except the lens and, when they die, they cause toxic effects, such as inflammation and bleeding, which can ultimately lead to blindness. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Not only can destruction of the eye be harmful, but infection that sets into the open wound can also lead to blindness. (vetinfo.com)
  • A detached retina is a medical emergency that can lead to blindness if it's not promptly surgically repaired. (allaboutvision.com)
  • While some symptoms aren't a definite sign of retinal detachment when experienced in isolation (such as blurred vision or floaters), it's wise to have an eye doctor assess the health of your retinas to avoid a possible retinal detachment that could lead to blindness in the future. (allaboutvision.com)
  • This genetic condition will always lead to blindness, but your dog can still live happily. (pethealthnetwork.com)
  • An annual dose, for two years, should clear the infection and relieve dermatitis as well as prevent blindness. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This research, titled "Mining Retrospective Data for Virtual Prospective Drug Repurposing: L-DOPA and Age-related Macular Degeneration," was supported by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Human Genome Research Institute, Research to Prevent Blindness, Bright Focus Foundation, The Edward N. & Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation, Wisconsin Genomics Initiative, National Eye Institute, Marshfield Clinic and University of Arizona. (eurekalert.org)
  • You're seeing all 1 job at Prevent Blindness North Carolina because we can't find any available jobs at Prevent Blindness North Carolina close to Ashburn, VA at the moment. (indeed.com)
  • Prompt retinal laser therapy may prevent blindness in the later stages, so regular screening is vital. (medscape.com)
  • Onchocerciasis is the second leading infectious cause of blindness and can cause debilitating and disfiguring skin disease. (cdc.gov)
  • These programs are based on control of the blackfly population and/or mass administration to affected communities of an oral drug called ivermectin (Mectizan™), that is donated by Merck & Co., Inc. As a result of these programs, millions of people are at greatly reduced risk of debilitating itching, disfigurement, and blindness caused by onchocerciasis. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1975, the Twenty-Eighth World Health Assembly, in a resolution on the prevention of blindness, requested the Director General of the World Health Organization 'to encourage member countries to develop national programmes for the prevention of blindness, especially aimed at the control of trachoma, xerophthalmia, onchocerciasis, and other causes, and to introduce adequate measures for the early detection and treatment for other potentially blinding conditions such as cataract and glaucoma. (cdc.gov)
  • Chronic ocular onchocerciasis may lead to sclerosing keratitis and iridocyclitis, and finally to blindness. (medscape.com)
  • Despite these efforts, onchocerciasis remains the second leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. (medscape.com)
  • 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)
  • In order to overcome this issue, WHO is working closely with Member States and partners to eliminate avoidable causes of blindness by developing and implementing the national comprehensive eye care under the global initiative of VISION 2020. (who.int)
  • Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness, also known as "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight", launched in partnership with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, is an opportunity and appropriate response to the challenges posed by blindness. (who.int)
  • Vision 2020: The Right to Sight" is a global initiative that aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. (who.int)
  • The present strategy proposes specific interventions as part of the Vision 2020 Initiative for preventing and eliminating avoidable blindness in the African Region. (who.int)
  • To estimate the prevalence and causes of blindness in Chiapas, Mexico, and to assess the feasibility of using the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness framework to estimate diabetic retinopathy (DR) prevalence. (nih.gov)
  • Eye Care America's mission is to reduce avoidable blindness and severe visual impairment by raising awareness about eye disease and care, providing free eye health educational materials and facilitating access to medical eye care. (fldoe.org)
  • Face blindness refers to a disorder within the brain that causes the inability to recognize faces. (medicinenet.com)
  • Medically, face blindness is known as prosopagnosia . (medicinenet.com)
  • Stroke , degenerative brain diseases, or trauma to the brain may all be causes of face blindness. (medicinenet.com)
  • Face blindness (prosopagnosia) is a condition that causes the inability to recognize faces. (medicinenet.com)
  • Face blindness may be caused by. (medicinenet.com)
  • This spring, I found out that I have a rare neurological disorder known as prosopagnosia, or face blindness. (washingtonpost.com)
  • I first learned about face blindness in 2010, when I read an article by Oliver Sacks in the New Yorker. (washingtonpost.com)
  • People with prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, are unable to recognize faces, including those of friends and even close family members - and in some cases one's own face. (cbsnews.com)
  • Now, new research published in Cortex, links it to face blindness - or prosopagnosia -- the inability to recognize faces. (medscape.com)
  • It isn't known how many people have face blindness. (medscape.com)
  • Face blindness may be one of them. (medscape.com)
  • Cite this: Study Says Long COVID May Cause Face Blindness - Medscape - Mar 15, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • The main cause of blindness is cataract, followed by glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, refractive errors, trachoma and childhood blindness. (who.int)
  • Conditions such as glaucoma, high blood pressure and tumors are the leading causes of blindness in cats. (vetinfo.com)
  • Glaucoma is the most common cause of blindness in cats. (vetinfo.com)
  • The leading causes of chronic blindness include cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, corneal opacities, diabetic retinopathy, trachoma, and eye conditions in children (e.g. caused by vitamin A deficiency). (who.int)
  • Secondary NVG, the major cause of which is iCRVO, is a very aggressive, rare form of glaucoma, responsible for 3.9 % of glaucoma cases, but contributing disproportionately to blindness from all eye diseases. (europa.eu)
  • Glaucoma in general is more than a single disease entity: it is a group of conditions characterized by progressive optic nerve degeneration (detectable by pathological cupping of the optic disc) and loss of visual function, ultimately resulting in total blindness. (europa.eu)
  • 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)
  • An operating room on a jet might sound like something straight out of a movie, but it's actually how Rudolph Wagner, a clinical professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, travels the world to fight preventable blindness. (rutgers.edu)
  • For more information, please visit: https://give.fightingblindness.org/event/michigan-visionwalk-2022/e348802 *The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures of people affected by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), macular degeneration, Usher Syndrome, and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases. (volunteermatch.org)
  • Volunteer at Winter Wonderland with Foundation Fighting Blindness! (volunteermatch.org)
  • On Thursday, December 22nd, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has been invited to assist with the Winter Wonderland event at Tilles Park. (volunteermatch.org)
  • But if you or a loved one has been recently diagnosed with an inherited retinal disease or age-related macular degeneration (AMD), getting connected to the Foundation Fighting Blindness is a great way to get educated, better manage your condition, and find support. (fightingblindness.org)
  • The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher syndrome and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases. (fightingblindness.org)
  • The Foundation Fighting Blindness meets all 20 Better Business Bureau Charity Standards. (fightingblindness.org)
  • MARSHFIELD - A drug already used safely to treat Parkinson's disease, restless leg syndrome and other movement disorders also could delay or prevent the most common cause of blindness affecting more than 9 million older Americans - age-related macular degeneration (AMD). (eurekalert.org)
  • macular degeneration (18.0%) and eyeball atrophy (11.4%) were the second and third leading causes of blindness , respectively. (bvsalud.org)
  • June 15, 2009) - A team of researchers led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati at the University of Kentucky has discovered a biological marker for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in older adults. (eurekalert.org)
  • Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in older adults in the industrialized world, affecting some 10-12 million people in the United States - more than all cancers combined and about twice as many as Alzheimer's disease. (eurekalert.org)
  • The University of South Dakota is offering four professional development courses with a concentration in deaf-blindness and high intensity needs for 2023. (nationaldb.org)
  • Trachoma can be controlled, and blindness and visual loss can be prevented by appropriate application of relatively simple and inexpensive measures. (cdc.gov)
  • Trachoma-control programs must be aimed primarily at those severely affected communities where the disease leads to blindness. (cdc.gov)
  • In view of these developments and the importance of trachoma control in the prevention of blindness, a revised guide to trachoma control has been prepared (1). (cdc.gov)
  • [2] People with total color blindness (achromatopsia) may also be uncomfortable in bright environments [2] and have decreased visual acuity . (wikipedia.org)
  • Red-green color blindness is the most common form, followed by blue-yellow color blindness and total color blindness. (wikipedia.org)
  • If none of the three primary colors can be distinguished, it is called total color blindness. (myopiacurenatural.com)
  • Il s'agissait d'une étude rétrospective descriptive d'une durée de 2 ans 3 mois allant du 1er janvier 2018 au 31 Mars 2020 portant sur 80 dossiers de malades porteurs d'hémopathies malignes et prise en charge dans le centre. (bvsalud.org)
  • 3 = Bilateral hemianopia (blind including cortical blindness) stimulation is performed at this point. (medscape.com)
  • Inattentional blindness (also called perceptual blindness) is the failure to notice something that is completely visible because of a lack of attention. (simplypsychology.org)
  • Consequences of inattentional blindness in the real world may include automobile collisions, aircraft accidents and material threats to the safety of police officers during vehicle stops. (simplypsychology.org)
  • What Is Inattentional Blindness? (simplypsychology.org)
  • Inattentional blindness occurs when one fails to notice a readily visible yet unexpected visual stimulus in one's sight (Simons & Chabris, 1999). (simplypsychology.org)
  • It is important to note that inattentional blindness is distinct from other drawbacks of visual recognition such as attentional blink, repetition blindness, visual masking and change blindness (Driver, 1998). (simplypsychology.org)
  • What fundamentally distinguishes inattentional blindness from the aforementioned phenomena is the unforeseen character of the optic stimulus which escapes the observer's attention. (simplypsychology.org)
  • Their book titled "Inattentional Blindness," sought to detail the phenomenon employing various procedures. (simplypsychology.org)
  • Following are some instances of inattentional blindness from everyday life. (simplypsychology.org)
  • Probably the most famous study on inattentional blindness, also known as the "Invisible Gorilla Test," was carried out by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris (Simons & Chabris, 1999). (simplypsychology.org)
  • In a similar experiment, researchers tested inattentional blindness by asking participants to observe images moving across a computer screen. (simplypsychology.org)
  • The experimental studies on preconscious perception have a link with the cognitive studies on inattentional blindness. (bvsalud.org)
  • The studies on inattentional blindness are based on Neisser s research about selective looking and deal with the phenomenon of temporary perceptive annulment of certain objects by lacking of attention. (bvsalud.org)
  • and ocular lesions, which can progress to visual loss and blindness. (cdc.gov)
  • In the 70 s the experimental studies on conscious perception described the change blindness effect due to ocular movement. (bvsalud.org)
  • Patients with ocular trauma, bandages, pre-existing blindness or other 2 = Forced deviation, or total gaze paresis not overcome by the disorder of visual acuity or fields should be tested with reflexive oculocephalic maneuver. (medscape.com)
  • 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)
  • There are nearly 18 million actual cases of the disease, with about 270,000 cases of blindness and 6.5 million cases of severe itching and dermatitis resulting. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Estimate endorsed by the WHO Programme Advisory Group on the Prevention of Blindness in February 1982. (cdc.gov)
  • Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), which is a broad coalition of nongovernmental organizations. (who.int)
  • Learn more about retinal detachment and blindness below, including how long it takes after retinal detachment for blindness to set in and if surgery can restore vision that was lost. (allaboutvision.com)
  • How long before retinal detachment causes blindness? (allaboutvision.com)
  • This page provides information about opportunities in the United States for teachers and related service providers to learn about deaf-blindness and instructional practices for children and youth who are deaf-blind. (nationaldb.org)
  • The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness provides a library which includes publications and articles related to deafblindness, as well as local, state, and national listings of trainings, conferences, and events. (washington.edu)
  • Or so says the president of the National Federation of the Blind, who sat in on a recent screening of the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo film Blindness with a few sighted allies, only to emerge outraged over the depiction of townspeople reduced to madness and violence when struck by a blindness epidemic. (gawker.com)
  • People who have severe color blindness, better known as Achromatopsia, cannot see any colors. (iristech.co)
  • [2] It is most commonly caused by a genetic disorder called congenital red-green color blindness . (wikipedia.org)
  • Most of the time, color blindness is genetic. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Blindness can be genetic (or inherited), which means that this problem gets passed down to a kid from parents through genes . (kidshealth.org)
  • Although patients with myopia do not usually suffer from visual disturbance with the aid of glasses or contact lenses, when the degree of myopia becomes severe and worsens to the stage of "high myopia", complications can occur, leading to reduced vision or blindness. (nature.com)
  • Furthermore, eyeborg is a device which is helpful for people with severe color blindness. (iristech.co)
  • A cross-sectional study of moderate or severe visual impairment and blindness in residents with type 2 diabetes living in Xinjing Town, Shanghai]. (bvsalud.org)
  • To investigate the prevalence , underlying causes and risk factors of moderate or severe visual impairment and blindness in a population with type 2 diabetes in Xinjing Town, Shanghai, China . (bvsalud.org)
  • Binary logistic regression analysis was used to determine the related factors of blindness and moderate or severe visual impairment . (bvsalud.org)
  • The prevalences of moderate or severe visual impairment and blindness in our population with type 2 diabetes were high. (bvsalud.org)
  • Blindness usually occurs in people with intense infection. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The disease attacks the macula of the eye, where the sharpest central vision occurs, causing central blindness. (eurekalert.org)
  • If there is unilateral ______ blindness or enucleation, visual fields in the remaining eye are scored. (medscape.com)
  • For the disorder that causes most forms of color blindness, see Congenital red-green color blindness . (wikipedia.org)
  • therefore, scholars at home and abroad now believe that the previous statistical prevalence rate of congenital color blindness of 5.87% is inaccurate, the real congenital color blindness is only 3 / 10000, and most of the rest are color weakness. (myopiacurenatural.com)
  • In recent years, preventable and easily curable blindness has been recognized as a combatible public health problem. (cdc.gov)
  • Color blindness or color vision deficiency ( CVD ) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color . (wikipedia.org)
  • [2] In certain countries, color blindness may make people ineligible for certain jobs, [1] such as those of aircraft pilots , train drivers , crane operators, and people in the armed forces . (wikipedia.org)
  • The colors that are confused are very consistent among people with the same type of color blindness. (wikipedia.org)
  • Color blindness is a heredity situation and majority of people have it by birth. (iristech.co)
  • Color blindness , also known as color vision problem or color deficiency is a medical issue that makes it hard for some people to see some certain colors. (iristech.co)
  • People who suffer from red-green color blindness can get specific glasses or contact lenses which are specifically designed for people with color vision problem. (iristech.co)
  • The color blindness glasses basically work by working with certain wavelengths of light to aid people to differentiate between red and green. (iristech.co)
  • The advancements are definitely amazing and are bringing some great solutions for people with color blindness. (iristech.co)
  • Vision is one such amazing research that has come to life and is now able to help a lot of people in detecting their color blindness issue from the ease of their home. (iristech.co)
  • Vision is a remarkable research that has come to life and is making life super easy for all the people who don't have a color blindness treatment or test within their premises. (iristech.co)
  • It is not an impossible thing to attain but the researchers are trying their best to help people who have color blindness since the start. (iristech.co)
  • Theroux is written an incredibly witty, sensual novel about blindness, hubris, trespassing over borders and transgressions against the people. (blogspot.com)
  • If a primary color cannot be recognized, it is called "dichroism" in medicine, that is, what people call color blindness. (myopiacurenatural.com)
  • Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a condition that damages the blood vessels at the back of the eye, potentially causing blindness. (newswise.com)
  • Blindness and visual impairment remain a public health problem in many Member States in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. (who.int)
  • Visual impairment refers to low vision and blindness which correspond to partial or total loss of sight as measured by a standard scale.1 Blindness is preventable or treatable in 75% of cases. (who.int)
  • Short stories and links to positive approaches to the successful adjustment to blindness or visual impairment. (washington.edu)
  • The paper is called Sight and blindness in the same person: gating in the visual system , authored by German psychologists Hans Strasburger and Bruno Waldvogel. (discovermagazine.com)
  • However, if the condition has gone untreated for too long, it's likely that there is permanent damage to the structures of the eye and blindness is irreversible. (vetinfo.com)
  • If the tumors have caused permanent damage to the structures of the eye or the nerves in the brain, blindness may be irreversible. (vetinfo.com)
  • Furthermore, we evaluated associations between the discovered gene and myopic maculopathy grade using only highly myopic eyes to confirm that the identified gene contributed to the development of myopic maculopathy and subsequent low vision and blindness in highly myopic eyes. (nature.com)
  • The most common color vision problem is the red-green color blindness. (iristech.co)
  • As there is no "permanent" solution to color blindness, one has to adopt some ways to live with the poor color vision. (iristech.co)
  • However, the color blindness glasses don't work or everyone who has a red and green color vision issue. (iristech.co)
  • DCI operates its Blindness Prevention Program with the objective of preventing and treating vision loss among underprivileged children and their families. (distressedchildren.org)
  • 3、 Color vision corrector: it includes color blindness correction chart and color blindness correction attached mirror (not ordinary color blindness mirror). (myopiacurenatural.com)
  • Are you or a loved one seeking disability for blindness or vision loss? (justicecounts.com)
  • Social Security disability benefits for blindness or vision loss may be available. (justicecounts.com)
  • Disability for Blindness and Vision Loss: Brief Background The terms "blindness," "legally blind" and "vision impaired" refer to a broad range of conditions ranging from. (justicecounts.com)
  • Blindness is the inability to see. (who.int)