The ability to recognize faces is a complex neurocognitive skill with important social implications. The disorder, which, according to some estimates, affects more than 2 percent of the population, ...

A research team assessed the emotional authenticity perception in laughter and crying in participants who were born or became blind early in life and in participants who lost their sight later in life ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. This marks the first story ...

An educational explanation of perception and visual experience in blindness.

Sometimes our attention is so fixated on certain developments that we ignore other equally important trends. Thus, the focus on the fall of Eastern European Communism in the late 1980s had the effect ...

“You know,” said the doctor, “you could go blind from something else long before you go blind from this.” My journey to this dubious reassurance began several months earlier, during the summer after ...

Is it true that time blindness is a real medical condition? The idea of time blindness, or difficulty perceiving and managing time, has swept social media. While there is no diagnosis for it, some ...

This post was co-authored by Mollie Greenblum. Do you have ADHD and feel like you are constantly losing track of time? If so, you might be experiencing time blindness, or a warped perception of the ...

The term time blindness describes a persistent difficulty in managing time and perceiving how quickly it passes. People who struggle with time blindness may be frequently late, find it difficult to ...