U Of T Professors Devise Better Way To Test Sight In Babies
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In a darkened room at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a baby, its
head dotted with electrodes, sits in its mother's lap and watches flashing
black and white checkerboards and stripes on a television screen. Soon
after the test, doctors will know if the child can see and how well it can
see.
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.... Eizenman has developed a way of looking at brain waves that is more
sensitive than methods previously available, " says Skarf.
At the HSC, VEP's are used in a number of clinical applications: to
determine whether a visual problem is cognitive; to assess whether babies
who don't appear to see well will see better in the future; to determine a
course of treatment for such problems in which one eye turns in or is
weaker than the other eye. The second aspect of the researchers' work
involves t ....
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