NEI Research News

A new study funded by the NEI provides an account for how pathways in the brain's visual system may be shaped by developmental factors.

According to a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical study, children with a type of autoimmune arthritis and associated eye inflammation are likely to experience disease recurrence when discontinuing a biologic therapy called adalimumab.

In a follow up study, researchers found that children who wore special contact lenses to slow progression of myopia maintained the treatment benefit even after they stopped wearing the contacts as older teens.

A new study from MIT offers a possible explanation for how the brain comes to be adept at identifying both color and color-degraded images, even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color.

Findings from a National Eye Institute-supported study show for the first time that when babies look at photos of unfamiliar everyday scenes, such as an office or a lab, they tend to fixate on the same regions where adults find meaning.

An inexpensive, smartphone-based camera can help doctors identify premature infants needing treatment for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), according to a new study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI).

Following cataract removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought.

Augusta University scientists have found a new target and drug that together appear to stop retinopathy of prematurity.

Syndrome is a leading cause of combined deafness-blindness

Researchers at the State University of New York help explain how reading might contribute to myopia.