You are victim to serious sexual degeneration.

So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration? What happens is is that, the front end cells die, the photoreceptors die, and over time, all the cells and the circuits that are connected to them, they die too.

Stem cell derived retinal transplants, now in a research phase, may one day restore vision, or part vision, to millions of patients with retinal diseases worldwide.

And yet it's only the retinal information that we get.

Completely different meanings, giving rise to the exact same retinal information.

And then the transducer then makes the output cells send the code on up to the brain, and the result is a retinal prosthetic that can produce normal retinal output.

So what it's doing is, it's replacing the retinal circuitry, really the guts of the retinal circuitry, with a set of equations, a set of equations that we can implement on a chip. So it's just math.

This experience taught me to empathize more with my patients, and especially those with retinal diseases.

My data indicates that I've got about average risk for developing macular degeneration, a kind of blindness.

In many forms of blindness, like retinitis pigmentosa, or macular degeneration, the photoreceptor cells have atrophied or been destroyed.

Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, retinal eye diseases are any of these conditions relevant, personally, to you?

We kind of changed the simple digital camera into a retinal camera, and then every patient gets their teleconsultation with a doctor.

And she told me the nurses hadn't mentioned this that she was blind, that she had been completely blind from macular degeneration for five years.

and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.

Until the only things that you have left are these cells here, the output cells, the ones that send the signals to the brain, but because of all that degeneration they aren't sending any signals anymore.

Then what happens is the retinal circuitry, the middle part, goes to work on it, and what it does is it performs operations on it, it extracts information from it, and it converts that information into a code.

The international community should assist in the establishment of a coherent multifaceted system of prevention of conflicts that would embody a rapid intervention component to prevent the degeneration of situations where the threat of massive human rights violations exists.

But Folkman persevered, and eventually he proved that such chemical substances do exist. Today, four decades later, such substances have been used to treat more than 10 million people with neovascular diseases such as macular degeneration and many different forms of cancer.

And patients with end stage Parkinson s disease can be treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS). Current experiments on neural prosthetics point to the enormous future potential of similar interventions, whether retinal or brain stem implants for the blind or brain recording devices for controlling prostheses.

The most lethal strain of leadership degeneration is escalating predation among the ruling elites. The most visible symptom is corruption, but the cause is intrinsic to autocratic rule. Typically, first generation revolutionaries have a strong emotional and ideological attachment to certain ideals, however misguided they may be.

A small number of babies who collapse and die unexpectedly in their first year are found to have one or more of the following three symptoms in common bleeding just outside the brain (subdural hemorrhage) bleeding at the back of the eye (retinal hemorrhage) and brain swelling.

Among many of the systemic flaws of autocracy, degeneration at the top, epitomized by ever weaker leaders, is progressive and incurable. The exclusive and closed nature of autocracy bars many talented individuals from rising to senior government positions, owing to a pattern of succession that rewards political loyalty over capabilities.

While scientific evidence over the last three decades has undermined the shaken baby hypothesis, no new evidence has emerged to support it. Instead, several researchers have relied upon the data in older studies to calculate the statistical probability of inflicted brain injury when certain features (such as intracranial hemorrhage, retinal hemorrhage, brain swelling, and seizures) are present.

The degeneration of the OHR's influence coincided with the withdrawal of the US military and the hollowing out of Eufor, which now has little in the way of operational capacity. Despite the danger signals, France and Spain apparently want to pull the plug on Eufor altogether before the end of the year, seemingly to prove the purely technical point that EU missions can end.

4.4 The State party contends that the author filed six different applications for review with the domestic courts and that all of these rejected her arguments. The High Court dismissed an application for reconsideration submitted by the author and concluded that if the fact of the injury was not itself proved, at least in relation to the work performed, it was impossible to classify the retinal detachment as an occupational accident.