Learning To See In Stereo<br><br>Children who are born with a crossed eye can develop a peculiar condition affecting vision called amblyopia, or "lazy eye." The eyes register two different images of the world, and the brain can't handle louboutin soldes it so it ignores one of them.<br><br>Surgery is commonly done to correct golden goose saldi the crossed eye, and a patch is worn over the strong eye to force the weak eye to work harder. golden goose scontate Conventional wisdom holds that after age 7, a child's vision isn't likely to improve.<br><br>But researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, believe that adults with the condition can improve their vision. I decided to go and meet them because I'm hoping they can help me.<br><br>Living With Lazy Eye<br><br>I've known all my life that I have this vision problem that's hard for people to understand. It's tricky because there's nothing wrong with my eyes piumini moncler outlet there's something wrong with my brain. I was born with one eye crossed, the right eye. It was turned in louboutin pas cher toward my nose.<br><br>This leads to amblyopia. I had surgery to straighten out the eye, so I look reasonably normal. But my brain never learned how michael kors uk sale to look at nike tn pas cher the images from the right and left eye simultaneously, so it suppresses one of them.<br><br>And that, says optometrist Dennis Levi of the University of California, Berkeley, has essentially left me "stereo blind."<br><br>In other words, I don't see the world in three dimensions. Traditional wisdom says if brain paths crucial for vision aren't working past age 7 or so, they'll never work. But Levi is part of a growing number of researchers who think you can teach an old brain new tricks.<br><br>And he thinks he can help me with this stereo blindness problem.<br><br>Learning To See In Stereo<br><br>At the Berkeley lab, I was tested to see whether I had stereo vision. I looked through a set of prisms, and tried to make two boxes on a video screen merge into piumini peuterey outlet one image when seen through both eyes. If I could do that, it would be a first step in establishing stereo vision.<br><br>But no matter how I adjusted the prisms, the coach factory outlet boxes stayed separate. They moved closer together, and then one floated away. parajumpers pas cher It's as if cheap nike air max my brain was saying, "Don't force me to do this." It's so used to keeping the images from the two eyes separate that it can't cope with fusing them.<br><br>Levi says he thinks he could work with me, teach me how to fuse the images. But his lab is in California, and I live in golden goose sneakers Washington not an easy commute. So Levi encouraged me to call Sue Barry, a neuroscientist in Massachusetts who knows optometrists on the East Coast who might be able to help me.<br><br>She's probably the most famous amblyopic patient in America. golden goose sito ufficiale There have been profiles of her in The New Yorker magazine and on NPR.<br><br>Barry, like me, was born with a crossed eye. Working with optometrists, she was able to do the tiffany outlet milano equivalent of fusing the boxes and now has full stereo vision. Barry says that gaining stereo vision made her feel more a part of the world, "an incredible sense of being immersed in the space around you, as opposed to looking in on it from a slight distance cheap nike air max away."
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