“Up to this point, few clinicians have prescribed atropine for children with severe amblyopia; it hasn’t been thought to be effective,” researcher Susan A. Cotter, OD, MS, FAAO, reported at ...

Children between the ages of three and seven with severe lazy eye, or amblyopia, can be treated just as effectively with a six-hour daily regimen of patching as with a full-time patching regimen ...

Daily patching in 3- to 7-year-olds brings 33% of amblyopic eyes within one line of the other eye in moderate amblyopia, and 11% in severe amblyopia.

You can fix a lazy eye by wearing an eye patch on your stronger eye, ... A 2006 study found that 2 hours of daily patching resulted in a modest improvement of moderate to severe amblyopia. 3.

Mild forms of amblyopia such as "lazy eye" result in problems with depth perception. In the most severe form, deprivation amblyopia, a cataract blocks light and starves the eye of visual ...

Adults with amblyopia, or lazy eye, experienced marked improvement in 3-D depth perception and the sharpness of their vision after spending just 40 hours playing off-the-shelf video games ...

Among children, errors of refraction and strabismic amblyopia were the most common causes of low vision, with retinal diseases most often causing severe vision loss, according to a study.Further ...

Though some younger children with less severe amblyopia benefitted from extended glasses wearing period before patching, the study indicated that for most children with amblyopia, ...

Amblyopia is one striking example of how the brain is modified by experience, says Professor Mark Bear, a neuroscientist at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. His research focuses on ...

Diagnosed with severe amblyopia at an early age, the Rice Memorial High School senior has spent his life playing sports with one good eye. Merchant's left eye has 20/200 vision which is considered ...