Selective impairment of face recognition following brain damage, as in acquired prosopagnosia, may cause a dramatic loss of diagnosticity of the eye area of the face and an increased reliance on the mouth for identification (Caldara et al., 2005). To clarify the nature of this phenomenon, we measured eye fixation patterns in a case of pure prosopagnosia (PS, Rossion et al., 2003) during her ide...

" Does the pretty-boy have any clue what he's getting himself into? " L'ward scoffed. D'zan chuckled and shook his head ruefully. " Doubt it. They have a long tradition of huggy-kissy weyrlingmasters at Fort. Remember, B'loren came from there. " It was noontime, and weyrling classes and drills had been dismissed for the lunch hour. The two old friends headed for the Weyrling Complex Hall and th...

Abstract To report novel ocular findings in unique Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome (early-onset cataracts, cerebellar ataxia, and a progressive myopathy), review literature, discuss causes of vision decrease this rare entity. A 3-year-old girl diagnosed with underwent uneventful cataract surgery both eyes within 1 week her 2nd birthday. This was exactly similar to sister other two related family mem...

Acute angle closure is common in hyperopic eyes but uncommon in myopic eyes. Here, we report a case of angle closure attack in a 59-year-old female patient with high axial myopia. The patient presented without underlying medical history or drug history with marked congestion and progressively blurred vision in her right eye (RE) for 1 week. Initial intraocular pressure (IOP) was 40 mmHg in the ...

This study is a case report of bilateral perivascular chorioretinal lesions associated with Bartonella henselae. A 37-year-old woman presented with headache and blurred vision in both eyes aggravating occasionally during five years. She was otherwise healthy, with best-corrected visual acuities were 20/20 in both eyes. History of close contact with cats was more than merely eye-catching upon ex...

‘‘She begged pardon from us, from her child, from Allah...while she was getting down from the bed she closed her eyes, and started moaning. When we held her and made her sit on the bed, she said...Mother, I am dying, I am dying. She collapsed on my lap. We splashed water on her face. We said Doa Durud [religious verse]...then phoned my son.’’ This is how the mother-in-law of the deceased woman ...

A 62-year old woman with hypertension but no previous ocular history presents to her family physician with a 1-week history of a large floater in the left eye. She reports “a cloud that moves around her visual field” and says that although she can see well enough to watch television, her vision while wearing her glasses is decreased from normal. On further questioning, she also reports that she...

Among all her other illnesses, the first was a great and continuous headache: because of this it often seemed to her that the back of her head boiled like a pot placed on the fire: and because of her great anguish, it looked to her as though her eyes, full of fire, were about to pop out of her head; and that she could not retain even one of her senses, were it not for the grace of God helping h...

Death was introduced to me suddenly, without forewarning and without any preparation, at the age of ten. I was riding home on my bike on a warm summer evening. A crowd had gathered. and I stopped to see what had happened. There, laying in the street, was a little girl's tennis shoe, next to a tiny pool of blood. I don't know how I knew it was blood, but I did. She had been hit by a car and kill...