Neurosciences News

A haptic shoe that receives signals from a GPS-enabled smartphone allows the blind and visually impaired to walk independently, giving directions and alerting to obstacles.

LA JOLLA, Calif. — A combination of methods is valuable in diagnosing cavernous sinus pathology, possibly avoiding craniotomy, and ophthalmologists may be suited to make the diagnosis, according to a poster presentation here.

SEATTLE — To regenerate neurons and neural connections in the eye and visual system is the “audacious” target that the National Eye Institute aims to accomplish in the next 10 to 15 years, the director of the NEI announced here.

SEATTLE — To regenerate neurons and neural connections in the eye and visual system is the “audacious” target that the National Eye Institute aims to accomplish in the next 10 to 15 years, the director of the NEI announced here.

GenSight Biologics has raised €32 million in series A financing to help fund development of a gene replacement therapy for Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy and an optogenetic therapy for retinitis pigmentosa, according to a company news release.

I had the pleasure of recently attending the Oregon Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting in Portland. I enjoyed connecting with many colleagues and friends, including Devin Gattey, MD, with whom I did a charity trip to Vietnam, and Yujen Wang, MD, who was a co-intern with me many years ago.

Visual electrophysiology testing provides a powerful set of tools to assist in the clinical investigation of patients with visual dysfunction. Electroretinograms, either flash or multifocal, and visual evoked potentials are particularly beneficial.

A 75-year-old man was referred to the New England Eye Center for progressively decreasing vision. He complained of photosensitivity, poor near and distance vision, and decreased color vision in both eyes since having uncomplicated cataract surgery in the right eye approximately 6 months previously. His symptoms started in the right eye initially and then progressed to involve the left eye.

Congenital upper lid ptosis is characterized by the drooping of the upper lid since childhood due to the maldevelopment of the levator muscle, as seen in Figures 1 to 3. It is considered as the simple type when there is no abnormal eye movement, jaw winking phenomenon, strabismus or innervational abnormality.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Optical coherence tomography promises to enable increasingly accurate in vivo assessment of anatomic changes associated with neuro-ophthalmic pathology, a speaker said here.