By Chris Gayomali
One in 50 tiddler is born with a condition call amblyopia , in which the visual sensation in one heart fails to develop properly , resulting in what ’s commonly called a slothful eye . If left untreated , amblyopia can leave in a expiration of seeing , which is why Dr. prove to overtake it early .
The downside to an early amblyopia diagnosis is that you have to wear an patch , which , as anyone who ’s ever been an 8 - year - old will tell you , is the kind of thing that tends to attract the wrong kind of attention on the playground . ( By covering up the respectable eye with an eyepatch , the thinking cash in one’s chips , the weak of the two will be drive to root for its own weight . )
But now , doctors from McGill Universityhave developed a novel treatmentthat , at least in a preliminary study , sounds slightly less embarrassing than an eyepatch , and 10 multiplication more fun . In research publish inCurrent Biology , medico split 18 adult participants with lazy oculus into two groups and asked them to do some preparation : Play a few games ofTetris , one hour a day , for two weeks .
The catch was that some participants were need to wear the traditional patch over their sizable eye , while otheras were asked to roleplay while fag a special pair of goggles . According toBBC News , " the goggles allow one centre to see only the fall objective , while the other centre could see only the blocks that accumulate on the ground in the biz . "
TheTetrisplayers asked to wear the especial goggles showed more improved visual modality than their cyclopean friends . Not to be left out , though , Doctor let the folks need to wear patch wear the special goggles for a few workweek , and their imaginativeness also improved considerably .
Researchers now think that training the eye to work in unison — as opposed to one at a time — is belike the preferred approach . " It ’s much better than patch , much more gratifying , it ’s faster , and it seems to work better , " Dr. Robert Hess , who lead the subject area , tellsBBC News . The next dance step for researchers is to put on the visual sensation technology to amblyopic minor , who probably wo n’t mind the supernumerary time of day of video game homework every day .
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