Digital Eye Strain Syndrome
May 12, 2020
Due to COVID-19 pandemics, we are entering some tough times when, like it or not, many of us will have to spend a lot of time in front of the …
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Accessory parts of the Eye
December 20, 2019
Accessory (adnexal) parts of the eye are anatomical structures that surround and protect the eyeball and support the function of the eye. Those structures include the orbit, eyebrows, eyelids, lacrimal …
Cortical Blindness
December 9, 2019
Cortical blindness is the loss of vision in a healthy eye that arises from damage to the occipital cortex of the brain. Most often it is caused by vascular events …
How does our eye develop as we grow?
November 4, 2019
There are two entities that define the refractive properties of the human eye. (a) The axial length – the length of the eyeball and (b) the refractive power of cornea …
Amblyopia treatment: Development through the ages
October 7, 2019
The word amblyopia derives from the Greek words ‘ambly’ which means dull and ‘ops’ that means vision, hence ‘amblyopia’, or in translation the ‘dullness of vision’. In this article, we …
Following the Light – Part VIII: The Brain and Vision
July 24, 2019
Having previously discussed how the electrical impulses triggered by the photoreceptors in the retina reach the area of the brain that is devoted to visual processing, we will now discuss …
Following the Light – Part VII: From retina to the brain
June 6, 2019
As you have probably already read in our last two blogs (Part V and Part VI), from now on we are not following the light anymore but electrical signals that …
Following the Light – Part VI: The Retina, continued
April 18, 2019
We have mentioned in the previous blog [link part 5 the retina and the vitreous] that the retina is one very complicated structure indeed. To understand, or at least to …
Following the Light – Part V: The retina (and the vitreous)
April 12, 2019
When I said in the previous blog that we had mostly covered optical parts of the eye by then, I had used the word mostly. Well, there is one more …
Following the Light – Part IV: Refraction and the Eye Globe
April 8, 2019
In our current blog series, we have so far covered the parts of our eyes that comprise the so-called optical part of the eye. You can read more about the …