Colour Vision Impairment in Young Alcohol Consumers

Colour Vision Impairment in Young Alcohol Consumers

Alcohol consumption among young adults is widely accepted in modern society and may be the starting point for abusive use of alcohol at later stages of life. Chronic alcohol exposure can lead to visual function impairment. In the present study, we investigated the spatial luminance contrast sensitivity, colour arrangement ability, and colour discrimination thresholds on young adults that weekly...

Colour vision impairment in migraine--out of the blue?

EDITORIAL Colour vision impairment in migraine – out of the blue? For many decades, clinicians and scientists have been particularly interested in those aspects of migraine that relate to the various components of the visual system. This is less surprising than it may seem, since many patients report prominent and at times incapacitating visual features. Among the most enigmatic of these one ma...

Impairment of colour vision in workers exposed to organic solvents.

OBJECTIVES To investigate loss of colour vision related to exposure to solvents and the role of three enzyme polymorphisms in modifying the risk in exposed workers. METHODS A sample was studied of 68 male dockyard workers and 42 male community controls with and without neuropsychological symptoms from a previous cross sectional study. Indices of cumulative and intensity based exposure to solv...

Subclinical impairment of colour vision among workers exposed to styrene.

The effects of exposure to styrene were studied among 60 men aged 20 to 56 (mean 29.5) employed in shipbuilding. Exposure was due to the handling of glass reinforced polyester materials. The study was cross sectional and the workers were compared with a control group matched for age, social and occupational state, and ethnic origin. During the study, the mean atmospheric exposure to styrene was...

Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness