All Blog Posts Tagged 'amblyopia' (6)

Does Optometric Vision Therapy Work?

I am frequently asked, "Does Optometric Vision Therapy Work?" by the families I work with every day. If they mean, does vision therapy improve vision function such as eye movements, focusing, eye teaming and 3D vision ... the answer is a resounding YES! If they mean.... does vision therapy work to improve vision information processing....the answer is YES! If they mean that amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus can be improved...the answer is…

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Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on May 17, 2013 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Dichoptic training enables the adult amblyopic brain to learn

 

....Adults with amblyopia, a common visual cortex disorder caused primarily by binocular disruption during an early critical period, do not respond to conventional therapy involving occlusion of one eye. But it is now clear that the adult human visual cortex has a significant degree of plasticity, .... One possibility is an inhibitory signal from the contralateral eye that suppresses cortical inputs from the amblyopic eye. .... Here we provide direct evidence that alleviating…

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Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on April 26, 2013 at 7:57pm — No Comments

Announcement of Webinar to Discuss Results of NEI Funded Research Study

On April 8th, at 9pm EST (8pm CST, 7pm MST, 6pm PST), we will be hosting a webinar to present the results of…
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Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on March 22, 2013 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Treating Amblyopia with Liquid Crystal Glasses: A Pilot Study

Amblyopia and Liquid Display

  Dominick M Maino

Amblyopia is treatable at any age....and we are developing new treatment methodologies all the…
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Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on September 9, 2012 at 10:56pm — No Comments

Free Access to Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group Articles

Do you like FREE access to quality research? Of course you do and here it is! Enjoy!
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Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on May 21, 2010 at 2:29pm — No Comments

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Dr. Mitch Scheiman the next ICO Dr. & Mrs. Dominick M. Maino Visiting Professor

Dr. Mitchell Scheiman's visit as the next Dr. and Mrs. Dominick M. Maino Visiting Professor starts June 22nd at ICO. His main responsibilities will be… Continue

Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on December 15, 2009 at 11:52pm — No Comments

Now upload videos directly to Sovoto!

Hello! Wanted to share great news that you can now upload videos directly on to Sovoto, as opposed to uploading using YouTube or Vimeo code.

Here is how to do it:

1. Navigate to your profile page

2. On the left-hand column navigation click "videos"

3. Immediately on screen you are prompted to "click to add videos." Follow the remaining on screen instructions.

Please note:

You can add up to 30 videos at a time, and each video may be up to 100MB in size. We support videos in the .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .avi, .wmv, .3gp, and .3g2 file formats.

If you would like to add a video to your status, please select video. Then copy and paste your Sovoto video link into the status bar.

As always, if you have any questions, please let me know.

Happy video uploading!


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