Shannon Halligan uses art to help a wide range of people Working through emotions, traumas and everyday life is hard. Art can help. Shannon Halligan is a creative art therapist in Rochester, NY. who ...
It all started with the letter “P”. Robin Benoit’s daughter, Jillian’s kindergarten class was celebrating the letter “P”. Her teacher put an eye patch over one of her eyes to make her a pirate for the ...
Good eyesight means more than having 20/20 vision by nature or correction. The brain also needs to be in sync with the eyes, a process that begins in the womb and continues throughout a lifetime of ...
Jacob McKinstry’s mother recognized there was an issue with her son’s learning when his participation in three- and four-year-old kindergarten decreased. The school principal said he had ADHD, which ...
When 14-year-old Claire Hylton hit her head during a basketball game, she didn't realize the concussion would prompt more trouble -- the onset of continual vision problems and a deteriorating ability ...
Imagine a patient with a stroke or a traumatic brain injury (TBI) getting visual stimulation by sitting in front of a screen twice a day at home. This is the concept behind Vision Restoration Therapy ...
The previous two posts on this topic address how visual journaling assists emotional reparation and supports self-regulation and stress reduction. Since then many readers have asked about specific art ...
Certain wavelengths and frequencies of light are used in syntonic phototherapy to help improve the body’s regulatory centers and to balance them out. This type of therapy has been used for over 80 ...
Gene therapy with voretigene neparvovec-rzyl partially restores geniculostriate pathway function in LCA2 patients, improving visual processing. Initial LCA2 pathology shifts visual processing from the ...
UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may switch on visual mental imagery in people with aphantasia and could raise the ...