NEI Research News

Children can keep full visual perception – the ability to process and understand visual information – after brain surgery for severe epilepsy, according to a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers evaluated motor skills and cognitive development, visual and hearing function, and brain images of children who had been exposed to the Zika virus during their mothers' pregnancies. 14.5 percent of children had at least one abnormality.

Portable probe developed by Duke biomedical engineers makes it possible to capture images of photoreceptors in the eyes of young children.

National Eye Institute (NEI) Postdoctoral Fellow Aman George, Ph.D., has received a $65,000 grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation to identify new drug treatments for vision impairment in children with a type of albinism.

Several studies indicate that the prevalence of myopia is increasing in the U.S. and worldwide, and researchers project that the trend will continue in the coming decades.

Engineers and physicians at Duke University have developed a handheld device capable of capturing images of a retina with cellular resolution.

A study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has shown that uncorrected farsightedness (hyperopia) in preschool children is associated with significantly worse performance on a test of early literacy.

Telemedicine is an effective strategy to screen for the potentially blinding disease known as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), according to a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI).

For adults and children who undergo cataract surgery, implantation of an artificial lens is the standard of care.

Blood vessels that normally regress in mice before the eyelids open 10 days after birth persist if the mouse fetus receives insufficient light in the womb — showing that the eye needs light to develop during pregnancy.