There is a broad collection of anomalies now known as congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). Some of the most serious are ophthalmologic. Two articles evaluated visual function among infants with suspected ...

Compared to the near total permanent vision loss associated with cortical blindness in adults, which is often due to strokes, children with CVI usually retain some functional vision that may improve ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cerebral visual impairment may be an important cause of visual impairment in infants with congenital Zika syndrome, according to a study presented at the American Association for ...

Unlike other vision impairments, CVI stems from an injury to the visual centers of the brain that affects how it communicates with the eyes. People with CVI usually have healthy eyes but have trouble ...

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From the very beginning, so much about my son Henry didn’t make sense. The clues were all there; we just didn’t know how to read them. He didn’t look at me or recognize me when I walked into the room.

An expectant Nebraska mother with a visual impairment was able to “see” her unborn baby thanks to an innovative 3D-printed ultrasound. At previous doctor’s appointments, Ashton Johnson relied on her ...

New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, No. 37 (September 13, 2011), pp. 15450-15455 (6 pages) We tested the influence of a photothrombotic lesion in ...