Macular degeneration, often age related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition that usually affects older adults and results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina.

This is a degeneration of the retina.

This is a degeneration of the retina.

Leadership degeneration accelerates as the autocratic regime ages and grows more bureaucratic.

Studies also have focused on the role of glutamate in motor neuron degeneration.

These represent what we see in people retina dispigmentosa, age related macular degeneration.

So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration?

My data indicates that I've got about average risk for developing macular degeneration, a kind of blindness.

The area of the macula comprises only about 2.1 of the retina, and the remaining 97.9 (the peripheral field) remains unaffected by the disease.

In many forms of blindness, like retinitis pigmentosa, or macular degeneration, the photoreceptor cells have atrophied or been destroyed.

Among many of the systemic flaws of autocracy, degeneration at the top, epitomized by ever weaker leaders, is progressive and incurable.

Exposure to sunlight, especially blue light Evidence is conflicting as to whether exposure to sunlight contributes to the development of macular degeneration.

Aristotle believed that the moon was in the innermost sphere and therefore touches the realm of Earth, causing the dark spots (macula) and the ability to go through lunar phases.

In fact, the consequences of leadership degeneration are easy to see faltering economic dynamism and growth, rising social tensions, and loss of government credibility.

Some of the people attending are partially blind, while others have suffered from visual degeneration at an early age, or they were born blind.

Macular edema occurs when fluid and protein deposits collect on or under the macula of the eye (a yellow central area of the retina) and causes it to thicken and swell (edema).

And she told me the nurses hadn't mentioned this that she was blind, that she had been completely blind from macular degeneration for five years.

And she told me the nurses hadn't mentioned this that she was blind, that she had been completely blind from macular degeneration for five years.

In fact, the general disorganization and degeneration that our societies are experiencing in varying degrees are being exacerbated to a large extent by drug trafficking and abuse.

The most lethal strain of leadership degeneration is escalating predation among the ruling elites. The most visible symptom is corruption, but the cause is intrinsic to autocratic rule.

Macrovesicular is the more common form of fatty degeneration, and may be caused by oversupply of lipids due to obesity, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), insulin resistance, or alcoholism.

Patients who suffer degeneration from this region, something called spino cerebellar ataxia, show a lack of coordination that results in stiff legs, wide stance, and a lumbering walk.

Today, four decades later, such substances have been used to treat more than 10 million people with neovascular diseases such as macular degeneration and many different forms of cancer.

Observe, ladies and gentlemen, the scarcity of convolutions on the frontal lobe as compared to that of the normal brain, and the distinct degeneration of the middle frontal lobe.

and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.

The degeneration of the OHR's influence coincided with the withdrawal of the US military and the hollowing out of Eufor, which now has little in the way of operational capacity.

In the eye, certain other carotenoids (lutein, astaxanthin, and zeaxanthin) apparently act directly to absorb damaging blue and near ultraviolet light, in order to protect the macula of the retina, the part of the eye with the sharpest vision.

The middle yellowish layer is dense with agents that are believed to stop an arthritic agent known as interleukin 1, which causes degeneration of the joints and the breakdown of cartilage.

19. With regard to the territorial and border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria, the Committee expressed grave concern at the tension in the Bakassi peninsula and its potential for degeneration into armed conflict.

After treatment patients gradually regain their vision over a period of a few weeks, although the visual acuity may not be as good as it was prior to the detachment, particularly if the macula was involved in the area of the detachment.

Until the only things that you have left are these cells here, the output cells, the ones that send the signals to the brain, but because of all that degeneration they aren't sending any signals anymore.

Until the only things that you have left are these cells here, the output cells, the ones that send the signals to the brain, but because of all that degeneration they aren't sending any signals anymore.

There are 10 million people in the U.S. and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.

So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration? What happens is is that, the front end cells die, the photoreceptors die, and over time, all the cells and the circuits that are connected to them, they die too.

The only randomized clinical trial to demonstrate a benefit for lutein in macular degeneration was a small study, in which the authors concluded that visual function is improved with lutein alone or lutein together with other nutrients and also that more study was needed.