Scientists re-created the demonic distortions that a patient with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, sees when looking at faces, Anna Gibbs reported in “Here’s what faces can look like to people with a ...

It's a rare disorder first described in 1995 that's estimated to affect up to 2% of the population. Studies suggest depression, anxiety, and poor sleep are common side effects. On an online forum when ...

Images generated by photographic computer software are the first to depict accurate images of facial distortions experienced by patients with prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a rare visual disorder that ...

A recent Scientific Reports study investigated whether visual impairment (VI) affects mental disorders in the older population. Study: The association between visual impairment and mental disorders.

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 ...

A gene-editing treatment known as CRISPR appears to have positive results for people suffering from a rare visual disorder. According to new reports, researchers injected seven volunteers with CRISPR ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luminopia, Inc., a commercial-stage company pioneering a new class of treatments for neuro-visual disorders, today announced that the company’s lead product, ...

In a new study led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), researchers found that novel eye-tracking metrics can help properly identify concussion-related vision disorders, a common phenomenon ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect a person’s life in several ways. For example, ASD can affect the way someone communicates, interacts with others, and ...