Video Games May Help Children With Lazy Eye

CBS News  (9/3) reported that video games may be "a possible therapy to lazy eye," according to a paper published in the August issue of the journal PLoS Biology. Researchers discovered that "participants in a pilot study playing a minimum 40 hours of video games registered improvements both in their visual acuity and 3-D depth perception." Lazy eye … Continue reading Video Games May Help Children With Lazy Eye

Poor Coordination May Be Common In Children With Amblyopia

Medscape (4/11, MacReady) reported that "poor coordination might be added to the list of woes experienced by children with deficient stereopsis or amblyopia, according to findings presented...at the American Society of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 37th Annual Meeting." After comparing "the speed and accuracy of reaching and grasping under binocular and monocular conditions in 21 … Continue reading Poor Coordination May Be Common In Children With Amblyopia