visual disturbances

Hi everyone, Emerge Australia is looking at revamping some of our resources (including our online forum) to make them more friendly for people who have visual sensitivities. Our first step in this project is to look for any published research which explores visual sensitivities in ME/CFS or...

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mitochondria-double-as-tiny-lenses-in-the-eye-20220405/ A study published last month in Science Advances found that inside mammalian eyes, mitochondria, the organelles that power cells, may serve a second role as microscopic lenses, helping to focus light on the...

Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity Zahid Padamsey, Danai Katsanevaki, Nathalie Dupuy, Nathalie L Rochefort Abstract Information processing is energetically expensive. In the mammalian brain, it is unclear how information coding and energy use are regulated...

I read about this syndrome because I'm becoming light sensitive, can't see in poor light conditions and have intrusive visual snow and disturbances. The association between light sensitivity and ME/CFS is well known, I'm wondering how many others have some of these additional symptoms? An...

Not from the same study unfortunately but these recent findings of visual deficits due to sleep deprivation : https://www.physoc.org/news_article/biomarker-to-avoid-safety-risk-for-the-sleep-deprived-eye-movement-test-indicates-sleep-loss/ strike me as similar, on first reading, to those...

Havana Syndrome: U.S. and Canadian diplomats targeted with possible weapon causing brain injury and neurological symptoms CBS News/60 Minutes main story/video https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-trauma-suffered-by-u-s-diplomats-abroad-could-be-work-of-hostile-foreign-government-60-minutes/ CBS...

http://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/2/1/2 Restricted Spatial Windows of Visibility in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Nadia S. Ahmed, Irene Gottlob, Frank A. Proudlock and Claire V. Hutchinson * Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester...

I say visual but it's no eye problem, I know they are coming from the brain. So: - I can't read any light colored letters on dark background. The higher the contrast, the more difficult or even impossible to read. White text on black background is almost impossible to read. If I concentrate even...