Face Recognition Study May Lead To Improved Computer Face Recognition AlgorithmsA specific area in our brains is responsible for processing information about human and animal faces, both how we recognize them and how we interpret facial expressions. Now, Tel Aviv University research is exploring what makes this highly specialized part of the brain unique, a first step to finding practical applications for that information. In her "Face Lab" at Tel Aviv University, Dr...
When Is It Time For Cataract Surgery?Almost everyone who lives a long life will develop cataracts at some point. As more Americans live into their 70s and beyond, we all need to know a few cataract basics: risks and symptoms, tips that may delay onset, and how to decide when it is time for surgery, so good vision can be restored...
Back-To-School Checklist Should Include Trip To Eye DoctorParents and students throughout the country are crossing items off their back-to-school checklists, but most are missing an important task to ensure learning success - a visit to the eye doctor for a comprehensive eye exam. According to an American Optometric Association (AOA) survey of K-12 teachers, 81 percent believe vision and learning are interdependent...
Can We Trust What A Model Predicts?When advanced modeling methods are used to investigate the health economics of complex treatments, efforts must be made to make sure that the model outcomes are reliable. Researchers at the University Eye Clinic in Maastricht developed a model that simulates the lives of glaucoma patients...
NEI/FDA To Hold One-Day Glaucoma Endpoints MeetingThe National Eye Institute (NEI) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are sponsoring a Glaucoma Endpoints conference on September 24, 2010, to develop definitions and standards for describing structural changes in the glaucomatous optic nerve and functional changes in vision, as criteria for approval of new glaucoma therapeutics in clinical trials...
Contact Lens Injury Leading Cause Of Medical Device Emergency Visits Among US ChildrenA government report says that contact lens injury is the leading cause of over 70,000 emergency department (ED) visits every year for medical device-associated injury among US children and that more public health initiatives are needed to prevent such easily averted injuries in children, which are often due to wearing lenses for too long and not cleaning them properly...
Two Therapies Slow Diabetic Eye Disease ProgressionIn high-risk adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that two therapies may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age Americans...
Vision Loss Halted By Valproic Acid In Patients With Retinitis PigmentosaResearchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) believe they may have found a new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a severe neurodegenerative disease of the retina that ultimately results in blindness. One of the more common retinal degenerative diseases, RP is caused by the death of photoreceptor cells and affects 1 in 4,000 people in the United States...
When You Feel Blue, Why Does Everything Look Gray ?Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue...
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