"Visual Impairment and Blindness: What We Know and What We Have to Know" ed. by Giuseppe Lo Giudice, Angel Catala

This book provides an overview of the effects of blindness and visual impairment in the context of the most common causes of blindness in older adults as well as children, including retinal disorders, cataracts, glaucoma, and macular or corneal degeneration.

Blindness and vision impairment affect at least 2.2 billion people worldwide with most individuals having a preventable vision impairment. The majority of people with vision impairment are older than 50 years, however, vision loss can affect people of all ages. Reduced eyesight can have major and long-lasting effects on all aspects of life, including daily personal activities, interacting with the community, school and work opportunities, and the ability to access public services.


Contents
1.Infectious Keratitis: The Great Enemy
2.How to Improve Visual Acuity in Keratoconic Cornea?
3.Diffractive Corneal Inlays: A New Concept for Correction of Presbyopia
4.Intraocular Forced Convection Mechanism Defect as Probable Cause of Normal-Tension Glaucoma
5.Training Reading Skills in Central Field Loss Patients: Impact of Clinical Advances and New Technologies to Improve Reading Ability
6.Efficient Computer-Aided Techniques to Detect Glaucoma
7.Risk Assessment of Ocular Hypertension and the Use of Medication
8.Introductory Chapter: Macular Degeneration: Mechanisms of Action
9.Prologue: My Experience with Photoreceptors - The Peroxidation of Lipids
10.Zebrafish Photoreceptor Degeneration and Regeneration Research to Understand Hereditary Human Blindness
11.Mechanistic Dissection of Macular Degeneration Using the Phosphorylation Interactome
12.The Role of Imaging in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
13.Management Strategies and Visual Results for the Treatment of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration
14.Diabetic Retinopathy and Blindness: An Epidemiological Overview
15.The Role of Vision on Spatial Competence
16.Sensory Substitution for Visual Impairments: A Technological Review
17.Audio Cortical Processing in Blind Individuals
18.The Application of Geographic Information Systems to Support Wayfinding for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness
19.Low-Vision Rehabilitation in Maculopathy
20.Biometric Systems and Their Applications
21.Eye Movements during Barking at Print