Video Games May Help Improve Amblyopia In Adults

Medscape  (9/9, Waknine) reports, "Adults with amblyopia can achieve substantial improvements in visual acuity by playing video games for 40 hours," according to a study  published online Aug. 30 in PLoS Biology. For the National Eye Institute-supported study, "investigators placed an eye patch over the good eye in 20 adults aged 15 to 61 years and randomly assigned … Continue reading Video Games May Help Improve Amblyopia In Adults

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