Background: Dry eye disease (DED) is a group of tear film disturbances that are caused by decrease in production or instability. One the causes DED reduced secretion, which often happens visual display terminal (VDT) workers. Blinking therapy one therapies can be given to workers increase blink rate and reduce number incomplete blinks. Methods: Literature searching was done on database such as ...

Silver nanostructures deposited on glass showed luminescent blinking when excited at a high 442 nm irradiance. The irradiance required to photoactivate the silver, was dependent on the nature of the silver nanostructures. Silver fractal-like structures were found to be highly emissive, requiring only ≈30 W/cm(2) for photoactivation as compared to silver island films and spin-coated silver collo...

A sliding electrolyte metal-air microbattery driven by natural eye blinking motion is demonstrated as a source of electrical energy that can be integrated with smart contact lens platforms. The battery (footprint 10 mm2) consists Mg anode and Pt cathode, patterned on an insulating substrate the film eye-tear fluid periodically dragged top electrodes during eye-blinking cycle, which activates ba...

INTRODUCTION There is limited information on ictal unilateral eye blinking (UEB) as a lateralizing sign in focal seizures. We identified two patients with UEB and propose a novel mechanism of UEB based on a review of the literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS We report on two patients with intractable focal epilepsy showing UEB among 269 consecutive patients undergoing noninvasive video-EEG monito...

Eye blinks, typically occurring 15-20 times per minute, rarely capture attention during face-to-face interaction. To determine the extent to which eye blinks affect the viewer's brain activity, we recorded magnetoencephalographic brain responses to natural blinks, and to the same blinks slowed down to 38% of the original speed. The stimuli were presented on video once every 2.3-6.2 s. As a cont...

Fluorescent nanoparticles have enabled many discoveries regarding how molecular machines function. Quantum dots have been the dominant class of fluorescent nanoparticles but suffer from blinking and from a substantial dark fraction--particles where the fluorescence is never seen--complicating any analysis of biological function. Nanoparticles composed of conjugated fluorescent polymers (Pdots) ...