In some cases, diabetic retinopathy can lead to a detached retina. This complication can happen if scar tissue pulls the retina away from the back of the eye. It usually causes the appearance of floating spots in the individual's field of vision, flashes of light, and severe vision loss....
Disturbances in Vision: Floaters and Flashes Have you ever seen a speck or a flashing light moving in your field of vision? Known as floaters and flashes, these visual disturbances1 are relatively common phenomena, often occurring in middle-aged individuals. However, if you experience floaters and...
Orthostatic HypotensionBrief flashes or dimming of vision in all or part of the binocular visual field accompanied by light-headedness and/or ataxia.Acute onset with postural change.Symptoms are transient and completely reverse.Non-urgent. Physical exam should include best corrected visual acuity, pref...
Aging Light Flash Millisecond Phototherapy 1. Introduction Normative aging reduces the coherence of output signals emanating from the brain's circadian pacemaker network [38,91,108,122], thereby weakening the functional integration of central and peripheral oscillators and their collective phase alignment ...
were larger than the on-transients in the masking functions when the intensity of the conditioning flashes was around a threshold level was specific to the spectral composition of the light sources used in the previous experiments, an investigation was carried out using monochromatic light stimuli. ...
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Debris from the site of the detachment drifts into the vitreous gel and causes floaters that resemble cobwebs, mist, or a veil that obscures part of your field of vision. You may also see flashes of light. In most cases, the eye floaters become less noticeable after a few months, ...