The ways our eyes explore the world change subtly over time, affected by age and illness. A new study now suggests some of those changes could be used to identify problems with memory and cognition.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Micro-movements are still possible with modern refractive lasers. Precise treatment planning and shorter ...

Your eyes might be giving away secrets about your brain’s future that you don’t even know yet. Researchers have discovered that specific eye movement patterns can predict Alzheimer’s disease ...

Saccadic eye movements are rapid, ballistic shifts in gaze that allow the fovea to sample different parts of a visual scene, facilitating high-resolution perception. Research in this area has revealed ...

Our ability to see starts with the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells in our eyes. A specific region of the retina, termed fovea, is responsible for sharp vision. Here, the color-sensitive cone ...

Rapid side-to-side eye movements can help stabilize posture, avoid falls and maintain balance for people with Parkinson's disease, just as they can for healthy people. This seemingly counterintuitive ...

Drug development for neurodegenerative diseases is struggling with one of its most intractable barriers: the slow, variable, and subjective nature of clinical endpoints Traditional assessment scales, ...

Talking while driving is widely recognized as a major source of distraction, but the specific ways conversation interferes with the earliest stages of visual processing have remained largely unclear.

Researchers have trained an AI framework to read chest X-rays by mimicking the eye movements of radiologists, according to a paper published Dec. 12 in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. The ...