 Blindness
"Blindness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.
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D001766
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.751.941.162 C11.966.075 C23.888.592.763.941.162
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| 1984 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1987 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blindness" by people in Profiles.
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Paudel P, Kovai V, Naduvilath T, Phuong HT, Ho SM, Giap NV. Validity of Teacher-Based Vision Screening and Factors Associated with the Accuracy of Vision Screening in Vietnamese Children. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2016; 23(1):63-8.
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Merle BM, Silver RE, Rosner B, Seddon JM. Adherence to a Mediterranean diet, genetic susceptibility, and progression to advanced macular degeneration: a prospective cohort study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015 Nov; 102(5):1196-206.
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Luan Z, Reddig K, Li HS. Loss of Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase in Drosophila photoreceptors leads to blindness and age-dependent neurodegeneration. Exp Neurol. 2014 Nov; 261:791-801.
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Kleinberg TT, Uretsky S, Flanders AE, Bilyk JR, Murchison AP. Black as night. Surv Ophthalmol. 2015 May-Jun; 60(3):269-73.
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Lally DR, Duker JS. Foveal injury from a red laser pointer. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2014 Mar; 132(3):297.
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Dong H, Ganz A. Automatic generation of indoor navigation instructions for blind users using a user-centric graph. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014; 2014:902-5.
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Ganz A, Schafer JM, Tao Y, Wilson C, Robertson M. PERCEPT-II: smartphone based indoor navigation system for the blind. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014; 2014:3662-5.
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Daniel NJ, Hernandez CL, Walker RA. Recurrent posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a pediatric patient with end-stage renal disease. J Emerg Med. 2014 Feb; 46(2):e39-42.
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Beltran WA, Cideciyan AV, Lewin AS, Iwabe S, Khanna H, Sumaroka A, Chiodo VA, Fajardo DS, Román AJ, Deng WT, Swider M, Alemán TS, Boye SL, Genini S, Swaroop A, Hauswirth WW, Jacobson SG, Aguirre GD. Gene therapy rescues photoreceptor blindness in dogs and paves the way for treating human X-linked retinitis pigmentosa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 7; 109(6):2132-7.
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Yu X, Ganz A. Audible vision for the blind and visually impaired in indoor open spaces. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012; 2012:5110-3.
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