Active clinical trials for "Vision Disorders"

The objective of this pilot work is to determine the role of central and peripheral visions in explicit attention processes (saccade planning) in the case of visual impairment.

The aim of this study is to measure visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and visual field by SAP-method using a novel device Ocusweep compared to currently widely used methods. Addition to that, the aim is to validate a novel perimetry method (Visual Search Test, VST) which is based on reaction times in visual decision- making task, where the subject is allowed to move eyes and where the fixation is verified by the subject himself in contrast to standard automatic perimetry (SAP) where prolonged stationary fixation and external fixation monitoring apparatus is required. Reaction-time based visual field device Ocusweep is compared to generally used SAP methods. Those tests will be done for healthy volunteers and for persons with diagnosed eye or brain disease. Ocusweep OcuRT vision based choice reaction time test is validated for test repeatability and compared to Trail Making Test (TMT), Useful Field of View (UFOV) and Vienna Test System (VTS) reaction time tests. To evaluate the ability to detect unreliable results, OcuRT test is also done under cognitive load and with instructions to cheat the test.

The purpose of this protocol is to determine if the Welch-Allyn Spot Vision Screener (SPOT) is effective at detecting various risk factors for poor vision in developmentally delayed children. These children have a higher percentage of vision disorders than the average population. The SPOT screen itself takes about six seconds to complete. It produces a photograph of the eye and a print out with amount of hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism and pupil size. The subject will have three SPOT screens around the time of their standard of care eye exam. The data obtained from the three SPOT screens will be compared among themselves for accuracy and to the findings of the clinical eye exam.

The CLEAR study is testing the level of agreement between visual acuity and Amsler grid testing using a mobile vision testing application, Checkup Study, and standard in office methods. In addition the percent of patients able to successfully complete home testing on the digital device will be assessed.

The investigators will re-investigate 150 children studied extensively in the past. 100 of these children were born to mothers prescribed methadone during their pregnancy because of opiate dependency, and 50 were comparison children who were not exposed to drugs. These children were investigated when they were newborn babies, and again when they were six months old, and a quarter of the drug-exposed babies had problems with their eyesight, whilst very few of the comparison children has eyesight problems. The investigators would like to see whether the eyesight problems are still present in the children now that they are older. Because they are older, more detailed testing can be undertaken which will help to understand how drug exposure in the womb may have affected their eyesight. The investigators will recruit new, comparison children to the study to match the number of comparison children with the number of drug-exposed children. The findings will be relevant and important when advising mothers on drug use - both prescribed and illicit - when they are pregnant.

Whole blood sample procurement study from pregnant women with signs and symptoms of Preeclampsia.

The aim of this study is to obtain an early biomarker of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Friedreich's Ataxia which allows to diagnose the disease in an initial stage and to follow up the patient with optic coherence tomography, a fast, non-invasive and comfortable method

Sellar area tumors such as pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma and meningioma, etc, commonly lead to visual impairment symptoms. Patients suffer from a loss of visual acuity (VA) and visual field defects (VF) due to a local compression on the optic chiasma by the tumor. In the management of these patients, it is an important goal to evaluate their visual function throughout the treatment, so as to predict the outcome of the visual function . Since the visual pathway contains a huge complex network of both structure and function, traditional simplex evaluation of VA and VF is obviously not enough. Former studies have revealed changes in the visual network and cortex structure in neurodegenerative diseases and optic neuritis, yet the functional and structural changes caused by local tumor compression and their relation to the visual cortex activity patterns needs further research. The objective of this research is to asses the visual function in patients with sellar area tumor 1 week preoperatively (baseline),72 hours postoperatively(checking point 1) and at 3 months follow up(checkpoint 2). By using multimodal evaluation including visual resting and task state fMRI, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), etc. The investigators aim to reveal the changes in functional connectivity (FC), amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (ALFF), regional homogeneity (REHO) ,visual cortex activity patterns and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS).