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September is Healthy Aging Month!

While older adults are at higher risk for eye diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD), getting older does not have to mean losing your vision. That’s why it’s important to spread the word about ways to prevent vision loss in older adults and support healthy aging.

This Healthy Aging Month, join the National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP) to help raise awareness about eye health and aging! Let people in your community know how they can protect their vision as they get older.

Find health education materials related to vision and aging

NEI Research News

Ophthalmic images from the study probands exhibit variable forms of retinal dystrophy as shown on fundus photos, fundus autoflorescence and optical coherence tomography.

Scientists discover gene responsible for rare, inherited eye disease

Scientists at the National Eye Institute and their colleagues have identified a gene responsible for some inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), which are a group of disorders that damage the eye’s light-sensing retina and threatens vision.
Okihide Hikosaka

Hikosaka selected as citation laureate

Each year, the Institute for Scientific Information selects a list of Nobel-class scientists based on journal citation volume.
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Activity in brain system that controls eye movements highlights importance of spatial thinking

New research from UChicago shows that the superior colliculus, a brain region that controls eye movements, also plays an important role in higher cognitive functions like categorization and decision making.

Funding for Vision Research

NEI funds more than 1,500 research and training grants to vision scientists across the country and around the world.

Learn more about funding opportunities