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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 113 avhandlingar innehållade ordet blindness.

1. 21. On the necessity of screening and national registration of congenital cataracts

   Författare :Gunilla Magnusson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :congenital cataract; glaucoma; intraocular surgery; posterior capsular opacification PCO ; prevalence; visual acuity VA ; visual impairment; screening; newborn examination; blindness prevention; cost-utility analysis; quality- adjusted life year QALY ;

   Sammanfattning : Objectives: The overall aim of this thesis was to contribute to improvements in the management of congenital cataract by defining the most efficient screening procedure, examining the magnitude of the morbidity rate, optimizing the timing of surgery by relating surgical outcome to age at intervention and severity of visual deprivation and furthermore by evaluating costs versus consequences of introducing the most efficient screening procedure found, on a national basis.Methods: Paper I: 72 children born between 1992 and 1998 in the Stockholm County Council region, Västra Götaland and Halland county, Linköping-Motala, Malmö, and Lund, who had surgery for congenital cataract before the age of one year were included in a retrospective study. LÄS MER

3. 22. Liksom ett par nya ögon. Frithiof Holmgren och synsinnets problematik

   Författare :Jan-Eric Olsén; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of ideas; History of philosophy; vivisections; colour perception; colour-blindness; the visual organ; the human body; sensations; scientific ideals; industrial technology; Frithiof Holmgren; scientific instruments; physiological experiments; laboratory medicine; physiology; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria; History of science; Vetenskapshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with research on the visual organ as pursued in experimental physiology during the latter half of the nineteenth-century. In the 1850's och 60's experimental physiology developed as a new, scientific discipline within the curriculum of western medicine. LÄS MER

4. 23. Blinda barn och seende föräldrar i utveckling och kommunikation

   Författare :Agneta Thorén; Philip Hwang; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Children with visual disabilities; Parent and child; congenital blindness; parent-child communication; parental verbal styles; development; autistic-like behaviour; longitudinal; multiple case-studies; video-recorded observation; Barn med synskada; Föräldrar och barn; Verbal kommunikation; psykologiska aspekter; psykologi; Psychology;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this descriptive, longitudinal study is to contribute to an understanding of parents’ influences on vital developmental processes in congenitally blind children. Without visual impressions verbal communication can have an important compensatory function, giving the child access to the external world and to social information that can not be obtained by other means. LÄS MER

5. 24. The neurocognitive basis of confabulatory introspection : Choice blindness and the brain

   Författare :Gabriel Vogel; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Confabulation; introspection; fMRI; sense of agency; decision; self-knowledge; metacognition; cognitive neuroscience;

   Sammanfattning : The goal of this thesis is to advance our understanding of introspection by studying when it fails, without us being aware of it. To do so, I have used the choice blindness paradigm. LÄS MER

7. 25. Use of affordable technology for the sensitive and specific diagnosis of onchocerciasis (river blindness)

   Författare :Gabriel Eduardo Guzmán Laparra; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Sammanfattning : Onchocerciasis or river blindness is the most common infectious cause of blindness. Even in the absence of blindness, the skin effects caused are of social stigma. It is the goal of the World Health Organization to eradicate filariasis (including onchocerciasis). LÄS MER