A review found that visual impairment is common in older adults with dementia and associated with negative effects. Older adults with a diagnosis of dementia more commonly have visual impairment (VI), ...

What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)? CVI refers to a brain condition, not an eye condition and results from damage to the visual systems in the brain that deal with processing and integrating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Large retrospective studies have demonstrated that visual impairment is a risk factor for developing cognitive ...

If visual problems are suspected an ophthalmologist usually examines the eyes. An ophthalmologists specializes in diagnosing, and treating eyes and their diseases. An ophthalmologist, optometrist, ...

I was talking recently with one of my neighbors, who is an Orientation and Mobility Specialist. She works with students who are visually impaired, helping them to orient themselves to their ...

To evaluate consistency among consultant ophthalmologists in registration of visual impairment of patients with glaucoma who had a significant visual field component to their visual loss. Thirty UK ...

A cross-sectional study found that areas with a high number of eye care clinicians had a lower prevalence of vision impairment. Geographic distribution of eye care clinicians was associated with ...

An additional 16.4 million people are projected to have vision problems due to uncorrected refractive errors. The study included data on adults aged 40 years and older, taken from 6 major ...

Using random cluster sampling, 6311 Shahroud inhabitants who were between 40 and 64 years old were invited for ophthalmological examinations. Visual acuity worse than 0.5 LogMAR (20/60) and 1.3 LogMAR ...

Even mild head injuries can mean serious consequences for brain function at its most basic level. Research published in Communications Biology shows that neuroplasticity, too, has its limits. Injuries ...

Unlike other vision impairments, CVI stems from an injury to the visual centers of the brain that affects how it communicates with the eyes. People with CVI usually have healthy eyes but have trouble ...