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New Insight on Alzheimer’s: Link Between Dementia and Eye Diseases Discovered

Neuroscience NewsAugust 8, 2018

A new study reveals a considerable link between three common eye diseases and an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers believe their findings could help physicians better detect those at risk of developing dementia.... Read More...

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Genetic Variants That May Predict Glaucoma Risk Identified

Neuroscience NewsMay 25, 2018

Researchers have identified 133 genetic variants associated with an increased risk of developing glaucoma.... Read More...

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New Insight into Eye Disease

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 28, 2016

Researchers transfer genes into muller glial cells to activate stem cells properties and cause them to reproduce.... Read More...

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Visual Activity Regenerates Neural Connections Between the Eye and Brain

Neuroscience NewsJuly 11, 2016

A new study reports high contrast visual stimulation can help damaged retinal neurons to regrow optic nerve fibers.... Read More...

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Growing Retinal Nerve Cells in a Lab

Neuroscience NewsDecember 1, 2015

Researchers have developed a new method that efficiently turns human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells.... Read More...

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Genetic Interaction May Be Key to Development and Progression of Glaucoma

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 10, 2015

Findings could offer a new target to treat glaucoma, a new study reports.... Read More...

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Genetic Link to Nearsightedness in Children Who Spend a Lot of Time Reading

Neuroscience NewsAugust 31, 2015

According to a new study, children with a variant of the APLP2 gene were up-to five times more likely to develop myopia if they spent more than an hour a day reading.... Read More...

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Can Your Brain Control How it Loses Control?

Neuroscience NewsAugust 14, 2015

New findings about glaucoma may have implications for Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.... Read More...

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Eye Diseases Identified by How We Watch TV

Neuroscience NewsNovember 11, 2014

Glaucoma could be detected by mapping eye movements as people watch TV, a new study reports.... Read More...

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Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery: Looking Under the Right ROCK

Neuroscience NewsDecember 6, 2013

Researchers have discovered a potential drug which can force BACE into different parts of a cell, reducing its ability to produce amyloid beta.... Read More...

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A Simple Eye Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Neuroscience NewsDecember 5, 2013

Researchers discover the pupils of MS patients respond much slower to stimuli. Additionally, the study reports the slower the response time, the worse the symptoms of MS are.... Read More...

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Positive Stress Helps Protect Eye from Glaucoma

Neuroscience NewsApril 3, 2012

Working in mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have devised a treatment that prevents the optic nerve injury that occurs i... Read More...

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Genetic Variants That May Predict Glaucoma Risk Identified

New Insight into Eye Disease

Visual Activity Regenerates Neural Connections Between the Eye and Brain

Growing Retinal Nerve Cells in a Lab

Genetic Interaction May Be Key to Development and Progression of Glaucoma

Genetic Link to Nearsightedness in Children Who Spend a Lot of Time Reading

Can Your Brain Control How it Loses Control?

Eye Diseases Identified by How We Watch TV

Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery: Looking Under the Right ROCK

A Simple Eye Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Positive Stress Helps Protect Eye from Glaucoma