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Optometry
A health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. The practice of eye and vision care.
Industry: Eyewear; Health care
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Auditory agnosia
Health care; Optometry
Auditory agnosia refers to similar symptoms with environmental, nonverbal auditory cues. This is separate from word deafness which is agnosia connected to auditory information. Receptive amusia is ...
Amygdala
Health care; Optometry
An almond-shaped structure in the temporal lobe; part of the limbic system. The amygdale is thought to play a prominent role in the integration of brain systems that are responsible for emotional ...
Associative component of prosopagnosia
Health care; Optometry
The inability to pair facial features to get a vision of the entire face, even though a person can recognise the individual features.
Appreceptive component of prosopagnosia
Health care; Optometry
Loss of the ability to perceive even the individual characteristics of a face.
Achromatopsia
Health care; Optometry
Colorblindness that causes inability to discriminate among different hues; caused by damage to the visual association cortex.
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