The, The Silent Thief, By. Levi, Knill And Bavelier

The research topic I will be introducing is Age-Related Macular Degeneration. This has been classified as a degenerative disorder that distresses the macula in one’s eye. AMD is unfortunately a common illness that individuals over 65 suffer from and that is a central cause vision loss. AMD doesn’t have a set disease pathway, in some individuals it advances slowly so that loss of vision does not arise for a long time. The disease can also advance much quicker and may lead to lack of vision in either or both eyes. The disease begins a blurry area near the center of one’s vision which grows larger and larger possibly causing a blank space in the eye (Boyd, 2013). Research is being done on AMD because it is a prevalent illness and has extreme consequences.

Her family noticed that she here right eye didn’t open all the way up. Holly was born with a cataract that made the vision look faded and try to process the image in the brain. Her family agreed to remove it as early as possible. This is important because it will stun the connection between the eye and brain. Even one or two months without full vision can effect a childs brain development. After surgery an immediate difference can be seen. The reaction is explained as being brought into the world again Holly will have to wear a contact for the rest of her life in the right eye. Holly’s left eye will have to be covered for five years to strengthen the right eye. The eye after years will be a good fully functioning

As humans, we don't always see with our eyes, but often with our imagination (Grunwald, 2016). Often times as people we never realize how useful our vision really is to us. You really don't think about something like that until it would actual happen to you. Throughout this essay, you will learn how the body is affected by Macular Degeneration (MD). Different signs and symptoms, as well as the etiology of MD, will be discussed. In the following, diagnosis tests and treatments may also be listed in order to help others who would like to know more about MD. Not to mention, you will learn the incidence and progression of MD. Furthermore, information though agencies and associations, as well as new research about MD will be given.

Apperceptive agnosia is the inability to recognize simple shapes or replicate them, associative agnosia is the ability to recognize simple and complex shapes and be able to replicate them but the inability to recognize (name) the complex shape. These are only some of the many impairments in visual information processing. As research and science progress we answer many questions and ask many more. We develop treatments and technology to address the unanswered and better treat the answered.

Seeing them get tested, try their first lenses, and helping them learn to properly care for both the lenses and their eyes at a young age is inspiring, and knowing that I am making a difference in these children's lives by the simple act of helping them see better continues to motivate me. This is especially true when these young patients are receiving Orthokeratology treatments. With these treatments I get to witness their vision improve over time, eventually being able to see perfectly with naked eyes This has taught me the importance of beginning vision care at an early age, making the study of youth vision care a particular interest of

In 2006 a young and slightly theatrical Julianna Klimeck was begrudgingly brought to the hospital after two days of incessantly bellyaching that her right eye was bothering her. Soon after, her parents, who had originally only made the trip in a desperate attempt to silence their often-overdramatic little girl’s conniption, were horrified to find out that their 8 year old had sliced her cornea. If they had thought their daughter’s “tantrum” before was unbearable, nothing could prepare them for the hysterics she would burst into when the ophthalmologist walked into the emergency room and announced that there was a fair chance that she could go blind in her right eye permanently.

Growing up, I was witness to an uncle of mine who progressively lost his eyesight. I saw a perfectly healthy man, slowly being plunged into a world of darkness. It was difficult to understand how someone could lose their eyesight and with it lose so much more. As I grew older, I learnt his vision loss, which had caused permanent blindness, was due to a condition called Glaucoma. Being a victim of a curious mind, I tried to research and understand this condition which affects the eye. It was then when that spark of interest in the anatomy of the human eye and the conditions and many pathologies which affect it, arose inside of me.

Amblyopia is also known as the lazy eye, and it is when one or both of the eyes do not develop correctly. When children are born they do not have good vision they develop their vision through their early years of life usually from birth to six years of age. This disease affects around 4% of children in the world.

However, amblyopia is increasingly becoming recognised as a binocular disorder. This emerging theory has driven the development of binocular treatments, some of which have yielded positive results surpassing those achieved by traditional methods; (Kelly, Jost and Dao 2016; Jost, Kelly, Leffler, Beauchamp, Birch, 2016; Birch et al, 2015; Li et al 2014). Importantly, findings demonstrate the potential plasticity of the adult brain beyond the hypothesised critical period for visual development, Tailor et al., (2016), Nancy (2015). Critically, binocular treatments are producing encouraging improvements among adult amblyopes Vedamurthy, Nahum, Bavelier and Levi (2015), Li et al., (2013), posing important implications for clinical practice. The aim of this essay is to explain amblyopia with reference to ‘strabismus and anisometropia’. To discuss traditional methods and newly developed binocular treatments that aim to address the binocular dysfunction of the amblyopic brain. Amblyopia occurs during the first 3 years of life Levi et al (2015) and doesn’t develop beyond the age of 8yrs supporting the ‘critical period’ of susceptibility. However, this doesn’t evident a theory for a null treatment effect among amblyopes beyond this period.

According to Baily and Hall, while visual impairment early in life is associated with inherited congenital disorders, abnormal fetal devepment, and problems associated with premature birth, most eye conditions are associated with aging. They claim that over 70% of the visually impaired population in the United States is over 65. Age related maculopathy, also called macular degeneration, or AMD, impairs the center of vision in older individuals. The macula is the region in the back of the retina that surrounds and includes the fovea (Goldstein 1999). It is important to understand that when this degeneration progresses enough, the condition constitutes blindness because the foveal area is what is

Eye: patient’s states having “Annual eye examination for 5 years, Glasses for driving, inability to see far object (myopic). Patient was able to read with each eye and both eyes with eye glasses. There was no abnormities with cranial nerve 2, 3, 4 and 6. Pupil was equal round, reflective to light and accommodation.

In second grade, when I placed my glasses on my face for the very first time, I entered into a different realm of reality—a reality where I could see things for what they truly were. I was intrigued by the way my eye doctor was able to help me in maintaining a keen eyesight during each annual exam visit. Being able to see clearly is one of the most valuable assets to have when living in this world because not only does sight constitute the majority of our perception of things, it also allows us to form a closer connection with our surroundings. For this reason, I have chosen to become an optometrist and improve the vision of others so they, too, can truly see all the world has to offer.

Today while talking with my friend about this, she told me that both her son’s eyes are lazy. He is five, and he has trouble looking at things straight, and he has to tip his head back to see things straight. Now that he is five he should be ready for his surgery. I think that it would have been interesting to know someone that did. When she talked about the prism she had to get in her glasses, I use to have that. Mine was not that bad, but it was so weird looking through my glasses. After wearing them for over four years, now I do not wear them at all. It took me a while to get use to them. When reading this story I was trying to picture what it would be like looking through her eyes, and what she was missing. My feeling about when she was a baby, and the doctor said it would fix itself, was upsetting. Sue’s parents, even though at the time this was the best advice for them, they could have had a second opinion. As Sue got older she started doing a great deal of work with eye exercises. She was doing taxing fusion exercises for twenty minutes a day, and with doing this she started to perceive depth at a greater distance. It is really wonderful that she went and researched her eye conditions and took the steps to fix

Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss among elderly people. What begins as a slow loss of central vision, over time, results in difficulty reading, driving and even recognizing the faces of loved ones. AMD not only makes doing everyday tasks impossible, it diminishes a person’s quality of life as well.

As defined by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (2) strabismus is a visual defect in which the eyes are misaligned and point in different directions. One eye may look straight ahead, whil e the other eye turns inward, outward, upward, or downward. You may always notice the misalignment, or it may come and go. A second disorder, amblyopia, commonly goes along with strabismus. Again, from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Amblyopia is p oor vision in an eye that did not develop normal sight during early childhood. It is sometimes called lazy eye. (7) The reason these two conditions are so closely linked relates to how the brain interprets the information received from th e two separate eyes.