"Blindness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.
| Descriptor ID |
D001766
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.751.941.162 C11.966.075 C23.888.592.763.941.162
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blindness" by people in Profiles.
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Kuball K, Fernandes VFL, Takagi D, Yoshizawa M. Blind cavefish evolved higher foraging responses to chemo- and mechanostimuli. PLoS One. 2024; 19(5):e0300793.
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Meer EA, Lee YH, Repka MX, Borlik MF, Velez FG, Perez C, Yu F, Coleman AL, Pineles SL. Association of Mood Disorders, Substance Abuse, and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Teens With Serious Structural Eye Diseases. Am J Ophthalmol. 2022 08; 240:135-142.
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Stone M, Dimofte C, Strong D, Pulvers K, Crespo NC, Leas EC, Pierce JP. Evaluating US smokers' willingness to pay for different cigarette packaging designs before and after real-world exposure in a randomised trial. Tob Control. 2023 11; 32(6):689-695.
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Iwashita M, Yoshizawa M. Social-like responses are inducible in asocial Mexican cavefish despite the exhibition of strong repetitive behavior. Elife. 2021 09 20; 10.
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Heydarian N, Hughes AS, Morera OF. An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Diabetes self-management in Blind Americans. West J Nurs Res. 2022 09; 44(9):830-837.
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Tseng VL, Coleman AL. Reducing the Burden of Unilateral Vision Impairment and Blindness in Australia. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2018 03 01; 136(3):248-249.
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Hashemi H, Mehravaran S, Emamian MH, Fotouhi A. Five-Year Incidence of Visual Impairment in Middle-Aged Iranians: The Shahroud Eye Cohort Study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2017 02; 24(1):11-16.
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Newman-Casey PA, Shtein RM, Coleman AL, Herndon L, Lee PP. Why Patients With Glaucoma Lose Vision: The Patient Perspective. J Glaucoma. 2016 07; 25(7):e668-75.
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Yoshizawa M, O'Quin KE, Jeffery WR. Evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors promotes eye regression in blind cavefish: response to Borowsky (2013). BMC Biol. 2013 Jul 11; 11:82.
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O'Quin KE, Yoshizawa M, Doshi P, Jeffery WR. Quantitative genetic analysis of retinal degeneration in the blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus. PLoS One. 2013; 8(2):e57281.