http://www.eyesapart.com ...crossed eyes, lazy eye, amblyopia, wall eyes, squint, tropia, double vision, turned, floating, wandering, wayward, or drifting eyes. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:35:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/09/28/video-games-improve-vision-in-adults-with-amblyopia/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/09/28/video-games-improve-vision-in-adults-with-amblyopia/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:00:56 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/?p=283 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 →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/09/28/video-games-improve-vision-in-adults-with-amblyopia/feed/ 0 http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:51:34 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/ 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 →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/feed/ 7 http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/04/14/stereo-vision/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/04/14/stereo-vision/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:42:02 +0000 Lois (admin) http://eyesapart.com/2007/04/14/stereo-vision/ 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 →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/04/14/stereo-vision/feed/ 0 http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/30/strabismus-survey/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/30/strabismus-survey/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:26:20 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/30/strabismus-survey/ [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 →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/30/strabismus-survey/feed/ 2 http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/21/chocolate-squint/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/21/chocolate-squint/#comments Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:37:04 +0000 Lois (admin) http://eyesapart.com/2006/08/21/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 →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/21/chocolate-squint/feed/ 0 http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/22/eye-patch-dvd/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/22/eye-patch-dvd/#comments Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:37:55 +0000 Lois (admin) http://eyesapart.com/2006/07/22/eye-patch-dvd/ A few weeks ago I wrote about a DVD called ‘The Eye Patch Kids’. Since then, my 7 year old grandson and I have had a chance to watch the DVD together several times. It’s full of humor that appeals … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/22/eye-patch-dvd/feed/ 3 http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/17/cross-eyed-bride/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/17/cross-eyed-bride/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:07:47 +0000 Lois (admin) http://eyesapart.com/2006/07/17/cross-eyed-bride/ In the novel Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo, the fictional Zeno wrote of meeting four sisters whom he considered as possible marriage prospects. However, one had a squint — another name for strabismus or a crossed eye. Zeno journaled how … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/17/cross-eyed-bride/feed/ 0 http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/06/03/eye-patch-kids/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/06/03/eye-patch-kids/#comments Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:08:50 +0000 Lois (admin) http://eyesapart.com/2006/06/03/eye-patch-kids/ After struggling with her two year old son for over an hour, Kelly finally gave up getting him to wear his new eye patch. Then she came up with an innovative idea. She produced a video of puppets wearing eye … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/06/03/eye-patch-kids/feed/ 2 http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/05/29/curveballs/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/05/29/curveballs/#comments Mon, 29 May 2006 18:52:58 +0000 Lois (admin) http://eyesapart.com/2006/05/29/curveballs/ “Life is going to throw you curveballs. You can either curl up on the nice leather couch and just tell the rest of the world to go away, or….” Karen Parsegian, who has been blind for four years, finished that … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/05/29/curveballs/feed/ 0 http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/04/20/virtual-vision-therapy/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/04/20/virtual-vision-therapy/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:12:46 +0000 Lois (admin) http://eyesapart.com/2006/04/20/virtual-vision-therapy/ Wouldn’t it be great if doing Vision Therapy was as fun as playing our favorite computer games? Perhaps that day is soon here! Virtual reality games to treat amblyopia are already being researched at Nottingham University and the results are … Continue reading →

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