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Bookmark or Share- Color Blindness: Types, Causes & Treatment - Cleveland ClinicColor blindness (color vision deficiency) is a fairly common condition in which you don’t see colors in the traditional way. This happens when cones (a type of nerve cell in your eye retina) aren’t working correctly. Cones process light and images as they enter your eye and send signals to your brain that allow you to perceive color.
- Color blindness - WikipediaColor blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. [2] . The severity of color blindness ranges from mostly unnoticeable to full absence of color perception.
- Color Blindness: How It Happens and What Causes It - WebMDColor blindness means your eye doesn't see color the way it should. Your eyes see differences in the light that comes in. It’s a bit like the way we hear sounds as being low or high. This is...
- Genetic Causes of Colorblindness / Color Vision Deficiency (CVD)Color blindness is usually caused by mutations in genes responsible for producing light-sensitive proteins in the retina’s cone cells. The main genes involved are: OPN1LW and OPN1MW: Mutations in these genes cause red-green color blindness, the most common form [1] [3].
- Types of Color Blindness - All About VisionThere are seven official diagnoses of color blindness: four different types of color blindness fall in the red-green category, two are in the blue-yellow spectrum and one version describes a type of vision completely lacking in color.
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