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.

Cortical or Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI), a brain-based visual condition, is increasingly being recognised as one of the leading causes of vision difficulties in children worldwide. Unlike common ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever felt a sudden flash of light in your vision or noticed zigzagging lines? This may occur before a severe ...

David Chalmers’s formulation of the hard problem of consciousness owes a large debt to Thomas Nagel’s earlier paper, "What is it like to be a bat?" There, Nagel pointed out that “An organism has ...

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?” ...

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