The human retina contains some 100 million photoreceptor cells. When these are stimulated with light, they communicate that information to the brain and we perceive light. Researchers have now ...

New research points to an easily measured eye response to light as a potentially useful way of diagnosing autism in very young children. Further testing is currently underway in a large cohort of ...

May 28, 2010 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — In an effort to find discrete phenotypic features that are consistently present in autistic populations, researchers at the University of Missouri Thompson ...

An abnormal pupillary light reflex (PLR) is commonly detected in patients with glaucoma, and these differences can be used to distinguish glaucomatous eyes from unaffected eyes, according to the ...

Measuring how the eyes' pupils change in response to light -- known as the pupillary light reflex -- could potentially be used to screen for autism in young children, according to a new study.

Pupil size in response to light could serve as a biomarker for concussion, according to a study published in Life. “A concussive injury to the brain is associated with changes in the PLR [pupillary ...

A blue glare illusion was perceived to be brightest and caused larger pupil constriction The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology formed a research team ...

In the study, to be presented September 13 at Ubicomp 2017, the app "PupilScreen" diagnosed brain injuries with close to perfect accuracy. The researchers created a deep learning algorithm that can ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Brain Injury Research Institute reports that high school athletes who sustain a concussion are three times more likely to sustain a second concussion, and a lack of proper ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Evaluating concussion patients for recovery and measuring compounding injuries can be done as simply as recording a video with a smartphone. Reflex, a smartphone application ...