http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The irony of getting away to a remote place is you usually have to fight traffic to get there. After hours of dodging dangerous drivers, you finally arrive at that quiet mountain retreat, stare at the gentle waters of a pristine lake, and congratulate your tired self on having "turned off your brain." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-brain-mathematical-genius.html Neuroscience Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:49:11 EST news284896135 The National Eye Institute (NEI), a part of the National Institutes of Health, observes Glaucoma Awareness Month each January by encouraging Americans at higher risk for glaucoma to schedule a comprehensive dilated eye exam and to make a habit of doing so every one to two years. While anyone can get glaucoma, people at higher risk include African Americans age 40 and over; adults over the age of 60, especially those who are Mexican American; and people who have a family history of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-nih-urges-dilated-eye-exams.html Ophthalmology Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:16:36 EST news277456590 A new study finds that certain changes in blood vessels in the eye's retina can be an early warning that a person is at increased risk for glaucoma, an eye disease that slowly robs people of their peripheral vision. Using diagnostic photos and other data from the Australian Blue Mountains Eye Study, the researchers showed that patients who had abnormally narrow retinal arteries when the study began were also those who were most likely to have glaucoma at its 10-year end point. If confirmed by future research, this finding could give ophthalmologists a new way to identify and treat those who are most vulnerable to vision loss from glaucoma. The study was recently published online by Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-early-predictor-glaucoma.html Ophthalmology Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:27:29 EST news276323220 Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources to human vision. By tuning lighting devices to work more efficiently with the human brain the researchers believe billions of dollars in energy costs could be saved. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-discovery-ways-optimize-sources-vision.html Neuroscience Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:00:02 EST news272216037 (Medical Xpress)—A new drug developed by researchers from Flinders University, in partnership with collaborators in Melbourne, could hold the key to better treatment of some blinding eye diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-drug-eye-disease.html Ophthalmology Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:50:01 EST news270970718 USC researchers show that men and women focus on different things when paying attention and are drawn away by different types of distractions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hey-im-men-women-differently.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:00:29 EST news262965621 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists can already see damage in the eyes of children who have been drinking fizzy drinks and eating too many carbohydrates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-fizzy-predictor-future-health-problems.html Health Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:20:36 EST news252652796 Thanks to a new study of the retina, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a greater understanding of how the nervous system becomes wired during early development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-scientists-advances-neuroscience-vision.html Neuroscience Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:29:02 EST news242386131 Feeding older mice a lower glycemic index (GI) diet consisting of slowly-digested carbohydrates delays the onset of age-related, sight-threatening retinal lesions, according to a new study from the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-amd-like-lesions-mice-fed-glycemic.html Health Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:31:16 EST news240492669 (Medical Xpress) -- Here are some words that few would have thought to put together: video game therapy. Yet, a pilot study by vision researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has found that playing video games can help improve the vision of adults with amblyopia, or lazy eye. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-video-games-adults-lazy-eye.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:21:29 EST news234087672 The precise wiring of our visual system depends upon the pattern of spontaneous activity within the brain that occurs well before birth, a new study by Yale researchers shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-sight-requires-exact-pattern-neural.html Neuroscience Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:34:42 EST news227964867 New research at UC Santa Barbara is contributing to the basic biological understanding of how retinas develop. The study is part of the campus's expanding vision research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-scientists-vision.html Medical research Fri, 20 May 2011 12:22:15 EST news225112781