Contrary to popular belief, your dominant eye doesn’t always have better vision than your non-dominant eye. Essentially, it just means that this particular eye relays information more accurately to your brain’s visual cortex than the other eye.
Contrary to popular belief, your dominant eye doesn’t always have better vision than your non-dominant eye. Essentially, it just means that this particular eye relays information more accurately to your brain’s visual cortex than the other eye.
Visual snow (VS) is a rare condition which causes a static-like effect to appear over everything you see. The effect will be present in both eyes, taking up the entire visual field. For some VS sufferers, the symptoms are relatively mild...
Astigmatism is an incredibly common eye condition, affecting almost 50% of British people who wear glasses. It occurs when either the eye’s surface – the cornea – or the lens behind the cornea isn’t as round as it should be.
Night blindness, also known as nyctalopia, is a condition which means your eyes are unable to adapt to low-light conditions. This means that simple everyday activities, such as driving in the dark or popping to the bathroom during the night, become a lot more difficult.
Night blindness, also known as nyctalopia, is a condition which means your eyes are unable to adapt to low-light conditions. This means that simple everyday activities, such as driving in the dark or popping to the bathroom during the night, become a lot more difficult.
Nystagmus is a condition whereby a person suffers with involuntary, uncontrollable eye movements. The condition can often make someone’s eyes look like they are shaking, moving quickly either from side to side, up and down, or in a circular motion.
The sclera is the white part of your eye that you see surrounding the iris (the coloured section which houses your pupil). Humans are actually the only primates to have a visible sclera which is thought to come hand in hand with our status as the most social beings.
Eye tests are absolutely crucial in maintaining good eye health, and we’ve written previously about the importance of them. They can detect all sorts of hidden eye problems, even revealing the presence of brain tumours and diabetes.
We’ve all woken up in the mornings feeling a bit sleepy, only to find some crusting or gunk in our eyes. Sometimes called “eye sleep”, the substance is a combination of eye debris and hardened tear film which falls into the eye’s inner corner and then dries up overnight, forming the crust.
Keratoconus is an eye disorder which affects around 1 in 2,000 people. A person’s cornea, the transparent front part of the eye, gradually becomes thinner, weaker, and begins to bulge forwards in a conical shape.
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