News tagged with blind humans
Gene scan helps identify cause of inherited blindness
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have scanned the entire genome of mice for genes that help build photoreceptors, the light-sensing cells of the eye.
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Students develop device to help blind manuever
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev students have developed an innovative optical radar system that helps blind people maneuver around obstacles.
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Blind people use both visual and auditory cortices to hear
(PhysOrg.com) -- Blind people have brains that are rewired to allow their visual cortex to improve hearing abilities. Yet they continue to access specialized areas to recognize human voices, according to a ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 16, 2010 |
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No experience required: Category-specific brain organization in sighted and blind humans
A new study finds a surprising similarity in the way neural circuits linked to vision process information in both sighted individuals and those who have been blind since birth. The research, published by Cell Press in the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Social scientist creates computer model to determine human perception of hues
Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded broadcasters, Web designers and printers trying to reproduce lifelike hues.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Genetic sleuth solves glaucoma mystery
Dr. Michael Walter is one good gumshoe. The University of Alberta medical geneticist has cracked the case of WDR36, a gene linked to glaucoma.
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Cats' eye diseases genetically linked to diseases in humans
About one in 3,500 people are affected with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease of the retina's visual cells that eventually leads to blindness. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has identified a genetic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 04, 2009 |
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