Reversibly Desensitising the Human Retina to Delay Saccadic Reaction Time for Diagnostic Prototyping
Suzanna M. L. Janssens, Johan J. M. Pel, Peter Bremen · 2026
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Description
Glaucoma steals peripheral vision slowly, and the standard test for it is long and tiring. Eye-movement tests could be quicker: healthy eyes flick fast toward a seen target, damaged ones lag. Suzanna Janssens, Johan Pel, and Peter Bremen found a way to fake the damage safely. Bright light patterns on an ordinary monitor briefly bleach chosen patches of a healthy retina.
Volunteers then hunted targets across their visual field. In bleached patches, their eye movements started fifty to one hundred thirty milliseconds late, with wider scatter. The lag grew toward the field's edge and faded within a second. Missed targets mimicked small blind spots. The trick lets developers prototype glaucoma tests on healthy eyes first.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Suzanna M. L. Janssens, Johan J. M. Pel, Peter Bremen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 86 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |