NIH R01 · 2024
Identification of optimum spectacle prescriptions for patients with Down syndrome
Project Summary/Abstract: It is known that individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have reduced visual acuity which may result from high levels of refractive error (sphere and cylinder) and elevated levels of higher-order aberrations that are present from childhood. Targeting optical aberrations through spectacle correction with refractions determined objectively from measures of wavefront aberrations is part of our long-term goal to provide new treatment strategies to improve vision in this group. The central hypothesis is that measures of visual and retinal image quality (metrics) can be used to identify sphere and cylinder corrections that optimize vision, resulting in multi-line acuity…
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