The Optic Chiasm, how do neural pathways for vision know to cross to the other side of the brain?

There is more to vision than just your eyeballs. Sure information and images are collected by the eye and the retina but that info is then transmitted to the brain to be analyzed and interpreted in the visual cortex. You could sort of say your brain tells your eyes what you are seeing, or at [...]

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Pssstt! Gossip and the link to your Vision

The ears may lean towards gossip but your eyes find a way to protect yourself from it, if need be. An interesting experiment recently conducted at Northeastern University reveals that your eyes and brain select for information that may help save you from trouble or danger in the long run. Participants in this study were [...]

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Will carrots help me see better? No. Will Chocolate? A little…

I can’t count the number of times I have been asked by patients if carrots really can improve their eyesight. I think most people are looking for carrots to be a magical ‘cure’ for their refractive error. They want to eliminate their need for glasses and want carrots to make them have perfect 20/20 vision. [...]

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3D coverage of News Events

Caught an interesting article in the Scientific American magazine online today. It was about stereoscopic color pictures of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake being found by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The pictures are now online too and most people will be able to view them as a 3D image. (If you have trouble doing [...]

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So Excited for Vision Expo in NYC this weekend!

This weekend at the Jacob Javits Center I will be attending Vision Expo East and I could not be more excited! The Vision Expo is a huge event for everyone in the eyecare and fashion eyewear world. You get to learn about all of the latest technologies, browse and buy the latest frames, learn the [...]

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Lab-Created Corneas Restoring Sight (no donors needed)

The cornea is ’the windshield through which you see the world.’ It is composed of collagen and different layers of transparent cells on the outermost part of the eye. Sometimes things can happen to the cornea, it can become badly scarred, thinned out or cloudy due to disorders of the cornea or due to injury. This can dramatically reduce your [...]

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It’s the Season for Giving, help someone receive the gift of Sight!

The Lions Club has helped so many visually impaired people throughout the world see again by providing them with cataract surgery, low vision exams, new glasses or even their very first pair of glasses! There are two ways you can help the Lions Club give others the gift of sight! One is donating your old [...]

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NBA star off the court due to Retinal Detachment

Amare Stoudemire, a forward-center for the Phoenix Suns, has had to take a ‘time out’ for the season after experiencing visual disturbances during a game against the Clippers on February 18th. It is reported that ‘he was bothered by the eye during an inbound play and then continued motioning toward it after trying to block [...]

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