Retinitis pigmentosa

ENG 380T – Literature and Medicine Nicole Radova The Bionic Eye: A Collaborative Vision “Seeing is believing” – an idiom commonly uttered and heard in today’s Western world. Sight has been deemed the superior sense in our society since its association with knowledge acquisition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Classen 1997, 402), which the Scientific Revolution directly preceded. Yet available to us are four other senses, which itself is not an ultimate truth as the very concept…

Americans have thought of places without access to clean water is some third world country, not places like Flint, Michigan with their lead infested waters. Flint is just one of thousands of cities that happens to have the spotlight because water has become a topic of concern everywhere. I first noticed this issue when I have visited China and had a tasted of this problem, in the summer before my sophomore year of high school, in the larger cities they have very unsafe drinking water that the…

unnecessary meaning to an illness (58). Moreover, the way society adds unnecessary meaning to blindness has the consequence of dehumanizing individuals afflicted with blindness. In a blog on Quora, Cristina Hartmann expresses her experience with retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome that has led her to have a gradual vision loss. Hartmann points out, “Some blind people have acuity issues; others have blind spots, but…what I see is unique to me and my condition.” Hartman tells us that the…

DOCUMENTARY REFLECTION. Your brain and your body don’t need to be the same place. What are the implications of this idea and where do you see the future of cyborg technology taking us? Consider this question from multiple categories and come up with examples of each: social, military, crime, medical. If you look at the history of human culture, most of our technology was created with the purpose of making something easier. But recently we’ve been moving in a new direction, instead of creating…

Photosynthesis is the process where energy from the sun gets converted into glucose for the plant to use as food. The energy from the sun gets trapped in the chloroplasts and together with carbon dioxide and water, it is turned into glucose and oxygen. The glucose eventually gets used as energy for the plant to live and the oxygen is a waste product that is released. The oxygen is used by humans during cellular respiration. Photosynthesis began over 2 billion years ago when an organism first…

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Synapses are the basic functional units in Central Nervous System (CNS). The synapses enable neuron-to-neuron communication via releasing and uptake of neurotransmitters. The synapse formation is modulated by specialized CNS cell type, glia. The glia modulates neuronal function via synapse formation, modification and elimination and, the glia even affects reorganization of neuronal circuit. Understanding cellular and molecular interactions of these glial cells is of great importance because they…

Løken-Senior syndrome is “a rare, ciliopathic, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by nephronophthisis and progressive eye disease (“Løken-Senior Syndrome” 2003). Estimates show that most rare diseases have identified genetic origins (“Rare Disease” n.d., para 5). In addition, genetic research has suggested that a large number of genetic disorders that were not previously identified as related are actually highly related in the genotypical root cause of the disorders. Løken-Senior…

Low vision is an uncorrectable loss of vision that interferes with daily activities. The World Health Organization 's (WHO 2010) criteria for low vision: Low vision is a best-corrected visual acuity lower than 0.5 logMAR (Snellen 6/18) but equal to or more than 1.3 logMAR (3/60) in the better eye, or visual field corresponding to less than 20 degrees in the better eye. Blindness is defined as a best-corrected visual acuity lower than 1.3 logMAR or a visual field no more than10 degrees in the…

Have you ever wonder how many people live by only seeing darkness? The majority of people agree that life cannot exist without light. As a matter of fact, many people especially blind people consider blindness as a barrier and life-changer. For example, Tommy Edison who is born blind said “the experience of life as a blind person had to be a little different to me”. One thing that describes this experience is blindness which is an optic nerve disorder divided into total and partial blindness.…