Health
Should you open your eyes underwater?
For many people, the hot summer days are often spent swimming at the pool. But even though the water is usually clear with chlorine, it doesn't mean you should be looking underwater.
Jul 31, 2023
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News tagged with eye contact
Psychology & Psychiatry
'Will you look at me?' How socially anxious people avoid eye contact
Individuals suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) consistently avoid eye contact. However, in a non-clinical population, gaze avoidance in socially anxious individuals depends on social situations, Jiemiao Chen saw ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Ophthalmology
Researchers find that chromatically simulated myopic blur may be useful as a myopia control therapy
In the last 50 years alone, the number of Americans who are nearsighted has increased from about 25% to 42%, and researchers predict this trend will continue in the future. University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers ...
Jan 20, 2023
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Ophthalmology
'Smart contact lens' to detect eye infections
A pioneering smart contact lens to test for eye infections in a quick, non-invasive way is being developed.
Dec 5, 2022
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Autism spectrum disorders
Why eye contact is rare among people with autism
A hallmark of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, is the reluctance to make eye contact with others in natural conditions. Although eye contact is a critically important part of everyday interactions, scientists have been limited ...
Nov 10, 2022
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Autism spectrum disorders
Smartphone game data could facilitate earlier diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and improve treatment
In the game Guess What?, created by Stanford researchers, an adult caregiver holds a smartphone to his or her forehead and asks a child to mimic an image displayed on the screen. It might be a monkey, a soccer player, or ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Health
Reusable contact lenses more than triple risk of rare preventable eye infection
People who wear reusable contact lenses are nearly four times as likely as those wearing daily disposables to develop a rare sight-threatening eye infection, finds a study led by UCL and Moorfields researchers.
Sep 22, 2022
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Health
Take care when handling, storing your contact lenses
Contact lenses can be indispensable for those with poor vision, but if they aren't properly cleaned and stored you run the risk of serious eye infections, experts say.
Sep 20, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Don't look at me like that: Integration of gaze direction and facial expression
Does eye contact always attract attention? Not in every case, as a research team at the University of Würzburg's Institute of Psychology has recently shown. Why not? Because context matters.
Sep 19, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pfizer sets sights on elimination of blinding disease trachoma by 2030
Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation program aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people worldwide.
Jun 23, 2022
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