Science. The garlic to most online vision improvement vampires (of your wallet and sanity). You won’t find many links to Google Scholar and clinical studies and optometry journal articles on most vision improvement sites. Why?
We wont dare to speculate (or speak ill of the unicorn farmers). But here you will find discussion about vision biology, about discoveries in optometry science, and many studies and articles relevant to understanding myopia and your eyesight.
The Role Of Contrast Adaptation In Myopia Development & Reversal
After a string of recent posts all shanti-shanti and fluffy, let's get back to some hardcore science.Vision science is an amazing field. Truly, retail optometry doesn't do any semblance of justice to the depth and breadth of research being done on the subject of human (and animal) vision. The sheer quantity of data and analysis available to you right now, today, is a testimony to human curiosity and ingenuity.One of the eyeball topics you might find interesting is contrast adaptation.It's [...]
Your Eyes Are Direct Access To Your Brain: Blue Light Reverses Amnesia
From TheVerge:Mice with amnesia could recall specific training after having their memories jogged by blue lights — the first time researchers have been able to suppress a memory and then restore it in an animal. And while that technical feat is impressive, what's more important is what the study in Science suggests: in some cases, memories that are lost due to brain trauma may still be present in the human brain.Amnesia comes in many forms. In some cases, people have trouble forming memories after [...]
Shots In The Dark: Clinical Myopia Studies
For the child myopia book I'm revisiting hundreds of the more relevant studies on the subject, looking to pick out some of the better ones to help parents understand the full picture of myopia.It turns out that there are plenty that have considered the negative impact of minus lens use for close-up, and looked into smarter alternatives to "minus for everything".Here is one, as example:"To examine baseline measurements of accommodative lag, phoria, reading distance, amount of near work, and level [...]
Dr. Morgan & Why You Should Trust Us About Vision Improvement
Finally, my counterpoint to the previous article on why you shouldn't trust us. ;)In 2004, doctors Morgan and Megaw wrote an interesting dissertation, with no less than 59 excellent clinical and expert references. This dissertation went on to discuss what we know about axial elongation of the eye, and its role in the development of myopia.Ready? Let's dive in (the numbers indicate references, listed at the end of the article):Introduction Myopia in humans results from an imbalance between the refractive [...]