
Color Blindness - National Eye Institute
Nov 5, 2025 · Most of the time, color blindness makes it hard to tell the difference between certain colors. Read about the types of color blindness and its symptoms, risk factors, causes, diagnosis, …
Types of Color Vision Deficiency - National Eye Institute
Aug 7, 2023 · Different types of color blindness cause problems seeing different colors. Read about red-green color blindness, blue-yellow color blindness, and complete color blindness.
Causes of Color Vision Deficiency - National Eye Institute
Jan 30, 2025 · The most common kinds of color blindness are genetic, meaning they’re passed down from parents. Find out how color blindness is passed down from parents and what diseases or …
Testing for Color Vision Deficiency - National Eye Institute
Dec 6, 2024 · If color blindness runs in your family or if you think you or your child may have color blindness, talk with your eye doctor. They can give you or your child a simple vision test to check for …
Study finds that special filters in glasses can help the color blind ...
Jul 13, 2020 · The filters (EnChroma glasses) are designed to increase the separation between color channels to help people with color blindness see colors more vibrantly, clearly and distinctly.
Blind People Can’t See Color but Understand It the Same Way as …
Aug 16, 2021 · Questioning the belief that that people born blind could never truly understand color, a team of cognitive neuroscientists demonstrated that congenitally blind and sighted individuals …
Research News | National Eye Institute
Jul 13, 2020 · A new study found that special patented glasses engineered with technically advanced spectral notch filters enhance color vision for those with the most common types of red-green color …
Ask a Scientist Video Series - National Eye Institute
This video features Dr. Sheldon Miller answering children's questions on colorblindness, whether it can be treated, and how people become color blind. Created on April 30, 2013.
How Do Fruit Flies See in Color? - National Eye Institute
Columbia scientists have identified a brain circuit that drives fruit flies’ ability to see in color — and found that it bears a striking resemblance to the circuitry behind our own capacity for color vision.
Do people and monkeys see colors the same way?
Apr 28, 2023 · University of Washington scientists compared connections between color-transmitting nerve cells in the retinas of humans with those in two monkeys, the Old World macaque and the New …