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Home / Health News / Scientists find a way to ‘shrink’ blind spot in human eye

Scientists find a way to ‘shrink’ blind spot in human eye

By: Agencies   | | Updated: March 5, 2016 8:33 pm
Tags: Blindness  Eye care  Eye health  
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The human eye does have an unavoidable blind spot and with training, this can be effectively shrunk, Australian researchers have found. The optic nerve that sends visual signals to the brain must pass through the retina which creates a hole in that light-sensitive layer of tissue. When images project to that precise location, we miss them. This blind spot can be shrunk despite the fact that the hole in our visual field cannot be. The findings raise the possibility that similar methods might improve vision in people with age-related macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness. (Read: Glaucoma How you can prevent blindness with regular checkups) Also Read - Beware! Air pollution can lead to irreversible blindness. Here’s how to stay safe

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We did not confidently expect to see much reduction in functional blindness, as you can never develop photosensitivity within the blind spot itself, said Paul Miller from University of Queensland in Australia. You can only enhance sensitivity at the blind spot periphery, but this proved sufficient to bring about a 10 percent reduction in functional blindness, he noticed. The researchers trained 10 people for 20 consecutive weekdays on a direction-discrimination task in which they were presented with a drifting sinusoidal waveform in a ring centreed about the physiological blind spot of one of their eyes. (Read: Now a new retina protein could help prevent blindness) Also Read - Monitoring glaucoma at home may be a possibility soon

The sine wave or sinusoid is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth repetitive oscillation. The size of the ring was adjusted such that participants could correctly gauge the direction of movement about 70 percent of the time. At the end of the training, those individuals showed improvements in the ability to correctly judge both the direction and the colour of the waveform. The data is consistent with the notion that training enhanced the sensitivity of neurons with receptive fields that partially overlap the physiological blind spot. (Read: Can an oral drug cure blindness?)

As a result, the researchers noted, the eye apparently becomes more sensitive to weak signals originating primarily from within the region of blindness. According to Miller, the team now plans to further optimise their training protocol in normally-sighted people around the physiological blind spot and to then test its use in people with age-related macular degeneration. The paper appeared in the Cell Press journal Current Biology. (Read: Anti-cholesterol drugs to prevent blindness from macular degeneration?)

Source: IANS

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Published : September 1, 2015 5:49 pm | Updated:March 5, 2016 8:33 pm
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