James Gordon Brown (known as Gordon Brown) was born in Govan, a district of Glasgow on the 20th of February 1951, the second son of Rev Dr John Ebenezer Brown and Jessie Elizabeth Brown nee Souter. When he was three years old, the family moved to Kirkcaldy in Fife, where his father was the vicar ...
The eye is a complex organ. Proper vision requires the coordination many areas of the eye and brain. Seeing flashes of light in your vision is a sure sign that something has gone wrong. Unless you have a flashlight shining directly in your face, you should never spontaneously see flashes of light in your visual ...
What are “floaters”? I’m referring to those squiggly little lines that enter the vision in the eyes, and floaters is what they are commonly referred to. What are floaters, what causes them, and are they a serious concern? Since I get them myself from time to time (blinking and moving the eyes around just puts ...
Marfan’s Syndrome affects one out of every 5,000 individuals in the United States. Hereditary in nature, the condition will lead to a lifetime of health issues which must be monitored and treated accordingly. Marfan’s Syndrome does not discrimate based on ethnicity nor race and no cure has been found. MArfan’s Syndrome affects the connective tissues ...
To get a better understanding of macular holes and their consequences please view this macular hole slide show.Thanks! A macular hole is a tear in the macula lutea, a pigmented area of the retina that is responsible for central vision and visual acuity, or clarity of vision. Your doctor may also refer to this condition ...
Stickler syndrome is a relatively common inherited disorder that affects the body’s collagen. The syndrome is often referred to as other names including David-Stickler syndrome, Stickler-Wagner syndrome, Wagner syndrome, and Weissenbacher-Zweymüller syndrome. However, the preferred name for the condition remains Stickler syndrome, named after Dr. G.B. Stickler who first studied and characterized the disorder in ...
Our eyes are like cameras. Light enters the eye through the pupil and reaches the lens. The lens focuses the light onto the retina, which can be likened to a camera film. The retina is a light-sensitive nerve layer or membrane at the back of the eye. It receives images and transmits them to the ...
Recently my son complained of headaches and a decrease in his vision. He said his eyesight seemed to be getting worse. He had begun to notice a diminished ability to see as far or as good as previously experienced. He is eighteen years old and in college. He has worn glasses since the ninth grade. ...
The eye and the sense of sight is perhaps the most specialized and highly developed sensory part of the body’s nervous system. The eye itself and the nerve pathways that carry the sensations back to the brain are all subject to conditions that may affect vision adversely. Causes Most severe forms of visual disturbance tend ...
At a recent eye examination, I told my doctors I was seeing spots or something floating in my eye into my field of vision. These eye floaters are tiny spots, flecks or cobwebs that drift around into your field of vision. People also describe them as straight and curved lines, strings or blobs in the ...
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