Category Archives: Just for fun

Sometimes it helps to see the humorous side, and always it helps to smile.

Video games improve vision in adults with amblyopia

Video games can improve vision in adults with amblyopia by 30% according to a Sept., 2010, news release from the University of California, Berkley. Research subjects age 20-60 played video games for two hours at a time, for a total … Continue reading

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New fun video game offers vision training in minutes a day!

Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day is a new video game for Nintendo DS. It’s designed to improve hand-eye coordination, focus, and peripheral vision through a series of fun games. Flash Focuswas developed in Japan and is distributed … Continue reading

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Stereoscopes, 3-d stereo binocular vision, and Vision Therapy

Ever since Charles Wheatstone invented the Stereoscope using mirrors in the 1830′s, people have been fascinated with 3-dimentional stereoscopic vision and depth perception. The New Yorker published a very interesting article called Stereo Sue about 10 months ago. You’ll want … Continue reading

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Strabismus survey: How does strabismus affect you?

[See photo credit at end of article] This survey ran from 8/30/2006 to 9/30/2006. Thanks to everyone who completed this survey. If you missed this one, we plan to do another survey soon. The survey simply stated, “If you have … Continue reading

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Chocolate squint

Don’t you love this squint? It almost looks like a wink, doesn’t it? Those of us with strabismus often squint in order to see, thus strabismus is also called “squint.” I’ve used this photo before in a post entitled Enjoy … Continue reading

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