Category Archives: Eye Exams

Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia and the Eye

Eyes and Brain Have Much in Common The relationship between brain tissue and eye tissue is an area of intense interest for ophthalmologists and neurologists. The brain has a critical role in taking the visual information your eye gathers and putting it together into a picture that you can understand. And the optic nerve directly…
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How Cataract Surgery Changed My Life

In 2015, more than 3.6 million cataract procedures were performed in the United States, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology estimates that more than 24.4 million Americans have cataracts. Read a PDF article about how a routine eye exam found an early onset case of cataracts, and how cataract surgery restored sight and a sense…
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