For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not ...

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's ...

Amblyopia, often called lazy eye, develops when the brain fails to receive balanced input from both eyes early in life. One ...

Often described in non-clinical terms as lazy eye, amblyopia affects about 2 to 3 in every 100 children. In fact, it's the most common cause of visual impairment among kids, according to the National ...

While current treatments focus on forcing the impaired eye to become more active, they are often only effective during ...

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Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the most common cause of vision loss in children. And the condition, which compromises depth perception, can last into adulthood. But until recently, treatments for ...

In a playroom at the Retina Foundation of the Southwest in Dallas, 10-year-old McKenna Price is taking on monsters on an iPad. Monster Burners is a video game, and by McKenna playing it, the young ...

An estimated 1% to 5% of children worldwide have lazy eye-- a childhood condition where the vision does not develop properly. It happens because one or both eyes are unable to build a strong link to ...

Amblyopia, more commonly known as lazy eye, is a condition in which the visual system develops abnormally and the brain does not learn to see properly from the affected eye. What happens in amblyopia ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...