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Visual Neuroscience news articles cover science research into visual cortex, vision, visual disorders, blindness, brain processing of visual cues, facial recognition and research related to how eyes and brains function.

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·August 25, 2022·3 min read

New Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Treating Age Related Macular Degeneration

A new study reports that a new gene therapy shows promise in treating dry age-related macular degeneration. The gene therapy, ophNdi1, directly targets mitochondrial function that is malfunctioning in AMD.

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·August 23, 2022·4 min read

Gene Therapy for Completely Color Blind Children Partly Restores Cone Function

Researchers partially restored the function of cone receptors in the retinas of children born completely blind by using gene therapy.

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·August 23, 2022·5 min read

Caffeine Metabolite May Slow Progression of Short-Sight In Children

7-MX, a caffeine metabolite, may help to slow the progression of myopia or short-sightedness in children.

This shows the visual cortex in a brain slice

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·August 19, 2022·5 min read

When Alzheimer’s Degrades Cells That Cross Hemispheres, Visual Memory Suffers

Alzheimer's disease disrupts some forms of visual memory by degrading a newly identified brain circuit that connects the primary visual cortex of each hemisphere.

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·August 18, 2022·4 min read

Touch and Sight Are Linked Before Birth

During the embryonic stage, tactile information simultaneously activated the tactile and visual neural pathways. After birth, the pathways separate and reorganize to allow for individual processing of visual and tactile information.

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·August 14, 2022·4 min read

Seven-Month-Old Babies Already Have a Sense of Symmetry

Seven-month-old babies are able to detect whether a mosaic has a symmetrical structure, suggesting an automatic ability to extract structural patterns from complex images.

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·August 11, 2022·6 min read

Bioengineered Cornea Can Restore Sight to the Blind and Visually Impaired

Researchers have developed a cornea implant from the collagen protein of pig skin. The implant restored the vision of 20 people with diseased corneas. The new implant could be a viable alternative to human cornea transplantation.

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·August 5, 2022·4 min read

New Insights Into Retinal Neurons

Researchers have identified a new type of retinal ganglion cells.

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·July 27, 2022·4 min read

Genetic Clues to Age-Related Macular Degeneration Revealed

The discovery of new genetic signatures associated with age-related macular degeneration may lead to better diagnosis and treatment of the currently incurable vision disorder.

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·July 27, 2022·4 min read

Black Patients Found Six Times More Likely to Have Advanced Vision Loss After Glaucoma Diagnosis Than White Patients

Researchers say Black patients are at greater risk of advanced vision loss than white patients following a diagnosis of primary open angle glaucoma.

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·July 26, 2022·4 min read

Changes in the Retina Can Be Linked to Parts of the Brain of Healthy Subjects at Risk of Alzheimer’s

In cognitively healthy people with a genetic risk for Alzheimer's, retinal changes have been associated with alterations in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, and lingual gyrus. Researchers say retinal changes can be used to track changes in brain structures associated with Alzheimer's in those with genetic risk factors.

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·July 23, 2022·5 min read

Trauma of Diagnosis Stays With Eye Disease Patients

The way in which a patient is informed they have a specific eye disease can impact their psychological health and ability to deal with their condition in the long term.