In medical terms, “it is the place in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the optic disc of the retina where the optic nerve passes through ...

The optic disc — the "blind spot" — has tended to be one of vision science's own blind spots, as philosopher Daniel Dennett was perhaps the first to notice.

Find out what you need to know about blind spots (scotomas). Learn about their causes, the treatment required, and how they affect your vision.

Formation of the optic disc (the blind spot of the retina) is known to involve several sequential changes in the eye rudiment. How these processes are regulated at the molecular level is not yet ...

Although glaucomatous optic neuropathy of the left eye had been a brief concern, the stability of OCT findings, along with desaturation and enlarged blind spot, was consistent with mild TON.

A visual field was performed, which showed an enlarged blind spot, and fluorescein angiography showed no leakage of the optic nerve. No treatment was initiated, and no further study was performed.

Each human eye has a blind spot, and the brain sometimes has to fill in what is there by looking at the surrounding area. Light gets into they eye by passing through the pupil.

Pupillary reflex enhanced by light inside blind spot Date: June 29, 2015 Source: The University of Tokyo Summary: The human retina contains some 100 million photoreceptor cells. When these are ...

But there are no light-detecting cells in the spot where the optic nerve connects the eye to the brain. That means there’s a relatively small area in which your eye can’t detect any light.

The blind spot of the human eye can be shrunk with certain eye-training exercises, thus improving a person's vision slightly, a small new study suggests.