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Fixing the Brain in 'Lazy Eye'

Dr Daniel Baker

• 25 September 2015
  6.30pm-6.50pm

• York Medical Society (map)

• FREE admission
  No booking required

• Wheelchair accessible

  (through garden)

Event details

When vision is unbalanced during development, perhaps because one eye has a squint, the brain develops differently. Individuals with amblyopia often lack the stereo vision necessary to experience 3D movies, and report that one eye is much weaker than the other in everyday life. For decades these problems were considered intractable in adulthood, but in recent years a range of adult amblyopia therapies have been proposed, with some evidence of success. In this talk I will discuss several of these therapies, which include specially modified 3D computer games, and also describe how we can track improvements in vision during treatment by monitoring activity in the visual parts of the brain.