Sentences with phrase «from eye»

One might argue that the visual improvements, if any, might have resulted from the eye patching alone.

Nearly 20 percent of children with NF1 develop brain tumors that involve the optic pathway, affecting the nerves that carry vision - related signals from the eye to the brain.

Dr. Augustinaite studies the visual pathway, where signals from the retina are sent to the visual cortex, where the brain interprets signals from the eye.

Now there is hope of a new way to protect extremely premature babies from impaired vision or blindness resulting from the eye disease retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

The fact that the same retinal image can give more than one perception, as when perceptions «flip», is useful because it lets us separate «bottom - up» (from the eye) from «top - down» (from the brain) processes.

To do this, primates have two forward - facing eyes that capture the same view from slightly different angles, and a visual system that keeps information from each eye separate until it reaches the brain's visual cortex.

Humans view the world through two eyes, but it is our brain that combines the images from each eye to form a single composite picture.

When animals were treated with baicalein, eye pressure was reduced by improving the rate at which fluid drained from the eye.

And the Homed Toad, when angered, can squirt blood from its eye into its enemy's face.

When asked how he would feel if other scientists were to clearly disprove his claim about precognition, the gleam fades from his eye for a brief second.

Basic commercial gaming products are on the market, but this technology isn't very reliable yet because signals from eye blinking and other muscle movements interfere too much.

Proper positioning makes words easily readable without advance visual cues from eye movements.

«When we began this study, the prevailing theory was that IOLs would be the better option for cataract in infants because they correct vision constantly, while contact lenses can be removed or dislodged from the eye.

The only hitch was that although both male and female dogs — and their owners — received an oxytocin boost from eye contact, male dogs didn't spend more time looking at their owners» eyes when they were sprayed with the hormone.

It appears to be moving in regard to background objects as you switch from eye to eye, even though you know it isn't moving at all.

To promote the use of the more expensive Lucentis, Genentech announced in 2007 that it would block Avastin's ophthalmic use by prohibiting its sales to compounding pharmacies, but the company backed away from this plan after strong protests from eye doctors.

A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.

When they tracked the cells» axons from the eye into the brain, they saw that many of them terminated in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), the first relay station in the brain for visual information.

Just because we don't understand how the brain interprets the messages it gets from the eye doesn't mean we can't help the blind see again

In those early years, and to a lesser degree today, many neuroscientists believed that the brain is compartmentalized — that visual information, for instance, goes straight from the eye to the visual cortex through a fixed network of nerves.

Stem cell source: Temple obtains her raw materials from eye banks.

If, for example, the links from the eye to the back of the brain are reduced or severed, it may diminish vision.

They believe that their headaches and sickness stem in part from eye damage sustained during the conflict and are now campaigning for compensation.

These variants arose independently from eye and skin pigmentation — associated variants in non-Africans.

A combination of computer simulations and observational data reveal that air pockets from the eye can transport heat and moisture into the surrounding storm, increasing the hurricane's intensity.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the retina that transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain.

Some experts suspect that an excess of TIGR could cause increased eye pressure by gumming up the space between the meshwork cells and blocking the normal outflow of fluid from the eye.

TIGR is made by the eye's trabecular meshwork cells, which help regulate eye pressure by controlling the drainage of fluid from the eye as new fluid is produced.

For him, he continued, the trail of research that led to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — the epochal advance that earned him the prize — began with his amazement at a photograph of a Drosophila (fruit fly) with a leg emerging from its eye.

In this case, the brain is picking bits from each eye that make «sense» as a holistic pattern when combined correctly.

A week after that first irritation, the Oregon resident pulled a translucent worm, about a centimeter long, from her eye.

Aside from the eye trackers, the researchers also used a robot - operated camera to take hundreds of high - resolution photographs of the areas, which will later get stitched together for panoramic images displayed on giant wraparound screens.

Without melanin during the embryonic stage, the neuronal tracts leading from the eye to the visual cortex of the brain develop aberrantly, resulting in diminished depth perception.

The trillions of bacteria that live in our intestines, known collectively as the gut microbiome, have been linked to maladies from eye disease to rheumatoid arthritis.

Missing from the eye was the layer of rods and cones, the photoreceptors that catch light.

Some of the leading non-animal tests are conducted on cell cultures, human and animal corneas from eye banks, corneal tissue cultures, and frozen corneas supplied by hospitals.

«It is just unfortunate for the patient,» Bradbury says, «that she was not able to swish away that one infected fly quickly enough from her eye.»

«And then, of course, there is the hurt, from the eye - rolling, distancing, and even blatant scornfulness, from the same child who was unequivocally adoring just a few years earlier.

To figure out how the cells find their way from the eye to their final destination in the brain, Osterhout and her colleagues examined mice that had been bred to make green fluorescent protein, or GFP.

Aside from the eye appeal, consider that dark colors are easier to keep clean.

You can choose from eye - catching orange or bold blue.

«In the future, we can imagine, in difficult - to - diagnose patients or patients not responding to treatment, just removing a few drops of fluid from the eye to very quickly learn exactly which proteins to target,» he said.

«Analyzing fluid samples from the eye can totally change how we treat patients,» said Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology.

For future patients, a liquid biopsy from the eye could help provide more precise diagnoses, he said.

The Thalamus not only relays visual signals from the eye to the visual cortex as previously thought, but also conveys additional, contextual information.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler wiped a tear from his eye.

Not all children who shy away from eye contact will fall on the autism spectrum.

From eye - catching Gemini teethers to soothing Sagittarius teethers, we've got them all!

It reduces eye contact, which can be stressful when baby is over-stimulated (did you know that over-stimulated babies will turn away from eye contact?).

Enlist support from family or friends to help on appointment days, especially if you are having your eyes tested, when you might possibly need their assistance for the rest of the day until your eyes have settled from the eye drops.