Incomplete Blindness Research Articles

Engineering near-infrared vision.

An optogenetic technology inspired by snakes could aid those with incomplete blindness

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in Blind Children: Very High Prevalence, Potentially Better Outlook.

Autism spectrum disorders affected 19 of 38 unselected children at a school for the blind in Cordoba, Argentina. Autism was linked to total congenital blindness, not blindness' etiology, acquired or incomplete blindness, sex, overt brain damage, or socioeconomic status. Autism "recovery," had occurred in 4 verbal children. Congenital blindness causes profoundly deviant sensory experience and massive reorganization of brain connectivity. Its ≥ 30 times greater prevalence than in sighted children suggests a distinct pathogenesis. Unawareness of autism's high prevalence in blind individuals includes blindness' rarity, misunderstanding of autism as "disease" rather than dimensional behavioral diagnosis, reluctance to diagnose it in blind children, and ignorance of its potentially more favorable outcome. Future investigation may suggest interventions to prevent or mitigate it.

ON THE SENSE OF SMELL IN THE BLIND

From a series of examination on the sense of smell in 36 cases of blindness, the following results were obtained:(i) Disturbance of smell was found in 9 cases i. e. 25%.(ii) Confusion of smell in 2 cases.(iii) Fatigue of smell set in slower and recovery faster in the blind than in persons of normal sight.(iv) Most of the present cases, excepting those under the headings (i) and (ii) above, had acuter sense of smell than the normal standard. Especially the cases of complete blindness were found more favoured in this respect than those of incomplete blindness.