Compared to the near total permanent vision loss associated with cortical blindness in adults, which is often due to strokes, children with CVI usually retain some functional vision that may improve ...

Experts have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations.

An analysis of the nation's first and largest comprehensive eye disease registry, the IRIS ® Registry, sheds new light on what we thought we knew about childhood blindness in the United States: The ...

It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision is shaped by their environment and behavior can clarify the same in people.

Philip R. Troyk, director of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), has been elected a 2025 fellow of the National Academy of ...

TO VISION RESTORATION. BORN IN ALGERIA, EDUCATED AT UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE AND RECRUITED TO PITTSBURGH AFTER HE FOUNDED THE WORLD RENOWNED VISION INSTITUTE IN PARIS, FRANCE, DOCTOR JOSE ALLEN ...

Cataract surgery has undergone remarkable refinement over the past decades, yet some of the most elegant maneuvers remain ...

Perkins School for the Blind is launching a virtual academy to share, with educators located anywhere, techniques for teaching students with rare disabilities. Perkins Academy will kick off this ...

The philosopher David Chalmers claimed in the 1990s that we neuroscientists have tackled only what he calls the ‘easy’ part of the problem of consciousness, namely “where in the brain does it arise?” ...