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Prof. Zhou Yifeng from USTC Life School and USTC schoolfellow, Prof. Lv Zhonglin jointly discovered one possible treatment for adult amblyopia. The New York Times covers this result entitled "Adult Amblyopia, Hopes Existing". It is said by the article that traditional enveloping treatment is not good enough for older children and adult amblyopia patients. Experts failed to successfully treat those aged over 8, which will result in permanent vision impairment. Experts are still in the dark concerning the causative mechanisms behind amblyopia. Traditional treatment involves enveloping healthy eyes to improve the vision function of amblyopic eyes. Now the experts have discovered that the truth is not as previously thought, particularly "the age limitation of amblyopic treatment is possibly not so fixed as we previously had thought."
Prof. Lv Zhonglin says in The New York Times, the selective 23 adult amblyopic patients (average age is 19.3 old) are divided into 3 groups. Specific-intensity stimulation given by computers, experts train two groups in order to improve experimentees' paralleled perception. The training time ranges from nine to nineteen days. Experts found out that training can help alphabet recognition eyesight of the adults with amblyopia increase by 70%, while there is no such improvement in the contrast. |