by nall486 | Nov 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
The increased use of LED-based light sources, both in consumer items such as phones and as energy-efficient lighting in homes, has raised the issue of whether the higher levels of blue-light emitted by LED sources have health and environmental implications. In...
by nall486 | Nov 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
In November, our school hosted the annual Te Whe visit. The purpose of Te Whe is to raise aspirations, expose rangatahi (young people) to science, Māori role models and potential career choices and to encourage the participation, achievement and retention in the...
by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
Tasi Watson recently joined us as a PhD student with Associate Professor Sam Schwarzkopf. Tasi previously studied for his Master’s degree with Will Hayward in Psychology here at the University of Auckland. In his research in SOVS he will investigate the use of eye...
by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
Andrew Collins recently attended the Heads of School, and Optometry Regulatory Reference Group meetings held in Melbourne on behalf of the School of Optometry and Vision Science. A key item of discussion for both meetings was the topic of cultural competency [safety]...
by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
PhD student Safal Khanal and Dr John Phillips (with Drs Phil Turnbull and Ehsan Vaghefi) recently published a paper on a non-invasive MRI method for reliably obtaining quantitative measures of blood perfusion in the human eyes. Due to the difficulty in measuring blood...
by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
Vision‐related complaints are among the earliest symptoms in dementia. Examination of the eye has anatomical advantages over the brain because of its transparent ocular media and direct retinal neuronal connections with the brain. Recently Drs Lily Chang, Joanna Black...
