Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly work to solve. A wave of research is now overturning that assumption, ...

Advances in technology have greatly accelerated scientific understanding of vision and the brain. Researchers can now ...

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers found that surviving eye cells formed extra branches that restored ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not ...

Blindness affects millions of people worldwide and severely limits their independence, daily functioning, and overall quality of life. In Spain, the prevalence of blindness is estimated at 0.17% , ...

Amblyopia, often called lazy eye, develops when the brain fails to receive balanced input from both eyes early in life. One ...

Your eyes and brain aren’t just close together—they’re connected. Simply put, your retina and optic nerve are extensions of your central nervous system, says Dr. Meenal Agarwal, an Ontario-based ...

While visual training will likely continue to be a productive part of treatment for people with hemianopia, the EPFL study ...

Avian eye view -- Introduction / Sally A. McFadden -- Producing the image / Graham R. Martin -- Exploring the image / Hans-Ortwin Nalbach, Friederike Wolf-Oberhollenzer and Monika Remy -- Constructing ...