Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market.

ContrastConnect has rolled out its physician-led virtual contrast supervision platform, which is designed to address the ...

This study explores how exogenous attention operates at the finest spatial scale of vision, within the foveola - a topic that has not been previously explored. The question is important for ...

TODAY’s Never Have I Ever series offers guidance about procedures and practices our trusted health experts would never participate in. Discover why they should be avoided and which healthy practices ...

NEW YORK – First Ascent Biomedical is rolling out its functional precision medicine platform as a commercial test and hopes to make it a new standard to determine the most effective therapies for ...

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Research connects vision to a later dementia diagnosis. Scientists found visual sensitivity tests could predict dementia up to 12 years before it was diagnosed. Neurologists say more work is needed ...

Evidence suggests best-corrected visual acuity is not sensitive to subtle vision losses in early disease stages, indicating the need for other tests. Here, we quantified contrast sensitivity in 99 ...

Aims To investigate the association between optical coherence tomography (OCT) biomarkers and contrast sensitivity (CS) measured by the quantitative contrast sensitivity function (qCSF) in retinal ...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects around 1% of the world's population. Researchers of the University of Barcelona have identified a deficit in contrast perception in people with ...