What we see is not only determined by what is really there, but also depends on whether we are paying attention, whether we are moving, excited or interested. In a new study published in Nature Communications, scientists ...
Nov 20, 2018
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For decades, scientists have examined how regions of the brain communicate to understand autism. Researchers at University of Utah Health believe the symptoms of autism may result from sustained connections between regions ...
Nov 16, 2018
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Ocular inflammation uveitis is a serious disease that can destroy eye tissue and cause irreversible blindness.
Nov 1, 2018
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The human brain is extremely plastic, especially the visual processing centre. The function of the newly organised brain area in blindness is still a topic of intense debate.
Aug 30, 2018
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A new study into recent cases of ocular syphilis warns increasing numbers of people are at risk of permanent damage to their vision.
Aug 29, 2018
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Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 million people worldwide.
Aug 27, 2018
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It's a popular idea in books and movies that blind people develop super sensitive hearing to help navigate the world around them. But a study, published August 1 in the journal iScience, shows that, in at least one situation, ...
Aug 1, 2018
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People with acquired prosopagnosia recognize few faces, a condition known also as "face blindness." These are people who have suffered brain damage that interferes with their ability to recognize faces, even the faces of ...
Aug 1, 2018
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In the wake of suicides by Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, we as a nation are newly sobered by depression's threat to the public health. Depression is a common mood condition considered by the World Health Organization to ...
Jun 29, 2018
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Imagine that you're supposed to meet colleagues for dinner, only you can't remember what their faces look like. For some, this is a reality, as people with face blindness or developmental prosopagnosia (DP) have severe difficulties ...
Jun 25, 2018
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