To study diseases affecting the retina, we rely on appropriate models to investigate causes of degenerative onset and progression. Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), and in particular patient-specific induced pluripotent ...

Neuro-ophthalmology is a medical discipline focusing on diseases of the central nervous system that may affect the visual sensory or motor systems or pupillary reflexes. Neuro-ophthalmologists are often part of the academic ...

Hypothesis 1: In people who develop a choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), presenting visual acuity varies. Eyes with worse visual acuities at presentation have worse ...

Depression is exceedingly prevalent in people with vision impairment (VI), which further exacerbates vision-related functioning, disability and quality of life when left untreated.1-5 Up to 43% of people with VI experience ...

Myopia is a refractive error characterized by an abnormal increase in eye length. There has been a rapid increase in the prevalence of myopia in the world and concomitant with this, are the increased number of individuals ...

Using a mixed method approach, this research was conducted in three phases. In Phase 1, a situation analysis was conducted through a survey and interviews with ophthalmologists, health administrators, mid-level eye care ...

Glaucoma is a group of optic neurodegenerative diseases of the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) leading to reduced vision loss (Quigley, 1999). Despite glaucoma being prevalent in the developed world (Quigley and Broman, ...

This doctoral study creates and tests an Eye Health Strategic Planning and Evaluation Framework and a Checklist to assist the planning and evaluation of eye health programs within the health systems of low resource settings. ...

Glaucoma is a group of progressive optic neuropathies that have in common the slow progressive degeneration and eventual death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). There is evidence, however, from clinical and laboratory work, ...

Retinal implants and other vision-restoration treatments are being developed for people with very low vision, and translational research is needed to show whether or not these interventions are effective. Clinical trials ...