A 77-year-old man awoke with blurred vision in each eye. His vision had been normal the night before. He had no headaches, jaw claudication, or other symptoms of giant cell arteritis. He denied any ...
The keen practitioner can gain helpful information simply by assessing pupillary responses. The pupils will offer substantial insight into one’s ocular health and the state of the visual pathways ...
A new study showed that NeurOptics Pupillometers reliably measure the presence and quality of the pupillary light reflex after cardiac arrest and during resuscitation, producing readings that ...
The human retina contains some 100 million photoreceptor cells. When these are stimulated with light, they communicate that information to the brain and we perceive light. Researchers have now ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study suggests that ...
In addition to allowing us to see, the mammalian eye also detects light for a number of "nonvisual" phenomena. A prime example of this is the timing of the sleep/wake cycle, which is synchronized by ...
The search for the lesion(s) was targeted to the visual pathways posterior to the LGN, because there was bilateral visual loss with normal pupillary light reflexes. This finding places the causative ...