Bolivia greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Bolivia number one exporter of lithium.
Other countries have inferior lithium...
Is there an eye doctor in the house?
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I'm a neurologist, not an ophthalmologist, but perhaps I can help...
Amblyopia is a defect in the processing of visual spatial information that affects the visual pathways in the brain NOT the eye. It is developmental in that there is some problem in an eye from an early age that prevents proper binocular vision, for example a congenital cataract, or a problem aligning the two eyes, i.e,. weak muscles or strabismus.
What is thought to happen is that the brain's visual pathways, deprived of binocular input, do not form properly. Children, up to about the age of 9 are at risk for this, because this is when the brain areas are forming. You cannot develop amblyopia after this (approx) age. So if something happened to one normal adult eye even for a long time in a person without amblyopia, then the eye was fixed, there would again be normal binocular vision.
Conversely, if a kid develops amblyopia, then by the time they are an adult it is too late to fix it. Perhaps one can train the eyes to fuse better, but the problem in the brain's visual pathways will not improve.
The treatment of amblyopia is to try to get the visual system to combine information from both eyes, and particularly to work the "lazy" eye. The earlier this can be started, the better.
I agree that until the technique is published in a peer reviewed journal it should be suspect (I don't know if it is).
The treatment, in principle, should be useful no matter what the cause, BUT the problem causing the bad eye must be fixed first. Since the technique treats the brain and not the eye, it would not be at all useful for treating nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, etc. Those problems are treated glasses, etc. Strabismus or weak eye muscles, is one cause of amblyopia.
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I wonder if I could just give them a little VR workout every now and then to beef them up...
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The hype is amazing and the NYT even had an editorial on how amazingly different Apple is thinking.
But looking at this from a typical consumer's point of view:
mac mini + 512 MB ram + keyboard + superdrive + 80 GB disk + 17" NEC monitor on website = $991.
So Apple is thinking different to the tune of $81, plus you can't add anything to the mac mini, and you now have the same jumble of cords and non-fashionable black monitor as with every other PC. Umm so remind me why this is so awesome?
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Maybe the mice that were talking on cell phones had a richer mental life, staving off the disease for reasons other than the radiation.
Nah. There was less amyloid because the mice unfortunately crashed their cars while talking on the cell phone and just died young.
Nothing to see here... move along.
Bolivia greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Bolivia number one exporter of lithium.
Other countries have inferior lithium...
or sorting pr0n. Now that's important!
Windows on warships? Seems as likely to work as a screen door on a submarine.
No, this is for would-be yentas not to use it to ask too many questions.
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http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/animation/assets/an
Is there an eye doctor in the house?
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I'm a neurologist, not an ophthalmologist, but perhaps I can help...
Amblyopia is a defect in the processing of visual spatial information that affects the visual pathways in the brain NOT the eye. It is developmental in that there is some problem in an eye from an early age that prevents proper binocular vision, for example a congenital cataract, or a problem aligning the two eyes, i.e,. weak muscles or strabismus.
What is thought to happen is that the brain's visual pathways, deprived of binocular input, do not form properly. Children, up to about the age of 9 are at risk for this, because this is when the brain areas are forming. You cannot develop amblyopia after this (approx) age. So if something happened to one normal adult eye even for a long time in a person without amblyopia, then the eye was fixed, there would again be normal binocular vision.
Conversely, if a kid develops amblyopia, then by the time they are an adult it is too late to fix it. Perhaps one can train the eyes to fuse better, but the problem in the brain's visual pathways will not improve.
The treatment of amblyopia is to try to get the visual system to combine information from both eyes, and particularly to work the "lazy" eye. The earlier this can be started, the better.
I agree that until the technique is published in a peer reviewed journal it should be suspect (I don't know if it is).
The treatment, in principle, should be useful no matter what the cause, BUT the problem causing the bad eye must be fixed first. Since the technique treats the brain and not the eye, it would not be at all useful for treating nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, etc. Those problems are treated glasses, etc. Strabismus or weak eye muscles, is one cause of amblyopia.
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I wonder if I could just give them a little VR workout every now and then to beef them up...
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Well, do you really want muscular bulgy eyes?
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/animation/assets/an
The hype is amazing and the NYT even had an editorial on how amazingly different Apple is thinking.
But looking at this from a typical consumer's point of view:
mac mini + 512 MB ram + keyboard + superdrive + 80 GB disk + 17" NEC monitor on website = $991.
emac + 512 MB ram + superdrive + 80 GB disk = $1074
So Apple is thinking different to the tune of $81, plus you can't add anything to the mac mini, and you now have the same jumble of cords and non-fashionable black monitor as with every other PC. Umm so remind me why this is so awesome?