Blindness and vision impairment affect at least 2.2 billion people worldwide with most individuals having a preventable vision impairment. The majority of people with vision impairment are older than 50 years, however, vision loss can affect people of all ages. Reduced eyesight can have major and long-lasting effects on all aspects of life, including daily personal activities, interacting with the community, school and work opportunities, and the ability to access public services. This book provides an overview of the effects of blindness and visual impairment in the context of the most common causes of blindness in older adults as well as children, including retinal disorders, cataracts, glaucoma, and macular or corneal degeneration.

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Visual Impairment and Blindness - What We Know and What We Have to Know
Contents
Preface
Section 1 - Cornea and Refractive Concepts
Chapter 1 - Infectious Keratitis: The Great Enemy
Chapter 2 - How to Improve Visual Acuity in Keratoconic Cornea?
Chapter 3 - Diffractive Corneal Inlays: A New Concept for Correction of Presbyopia
Section 2 - Glaucoma and Blindness: Risk Assessment and Pathophysiology
Chapter 4 - Intraocular Forced Convection Mechanism Defect as Probable Cause of Normal-Tension Glaucoma
Chapter 5 - Training Reading Skills in Central Field Loss Patients: Impact of Clinical Advances and New Technologies to Improve Reading Ability
Chapter 6 - Efficient Computer-Aided Techniques to Detect Glaucoma
Chapter 7 - Risk Assessment of Ocular Hypertension and the Use of Medication
Section 3 - Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy: Visual Impairment, Pathophysiology, Clinical Features, Imaging/Management and Treatment
Chapter 8 - Introductory Chapter: Macular Degeneration: Mechanisms of Action
Chapter 9 - Prologue: My Experience with Photoreceptors - The Peroxidation of Lipids
Chapter 10 - Zebrafish Photoreceptor Degeneration and Regeneration Research to Understand Hereditary Human Blindness
Chapter 11 - Mechanistic Dissection of Macular Degeneration Using the Phosphorylation Interactome
Chapter 12 - The Role of Imaging in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Chapter 13 - Management Strategies and Visual Results for the Treatment of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Chapter 14 - Diabetic Retinopathy and Blindness: An Epidemiological Overview
Section 4 - Low Vision, Blindness and Rehabilitation
Chapter 15 - The Role of Vision on Spatial Competence
Chapter 16 - Sensory Substitution for Visual Impairments: A Technological Review
Chapter 17 - Audio Cortical Processing in Blind Individuals
Chapter 18 - The Application of Geographic Information Systems to Support Wayfinding for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness
Chapter 19 - Low-Vision Rehabilitation in Maculopathy
Chapter 20 - Biometric Systems and Their Applications
Chapter 21 - Eye Movements during Barking at Print

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