The most common types of color blindness, or color vision deficiency, are genetic. However, other types may develop due to injuries, eye diseases, health problems, and side effects of treatment.

Q: What causes color blindness? The ability to accurately see colors depends on having three different types of color-detecting molecules located on cone-shaped cells with the retina detecting blue, ...

Color blindness, or color deficiency, causes difficulty telling different colors apart and may affect the shades and brightness of colors. Color deficiency can occur in females but is much less common ...

Millions globally live with colour blindness, often unaware of their condition. An optometrist shares a quick, one-minute test using Ishihara plates to help identify colour vision deficiency, which ...

Color blindness is a condition in which a person fails to recognize the colors red and green or blue and yellow. Either or all of the people having this deficiency experience the world differently ...

MANY still mistakenly believe that colour blindness means seeing the world in black and white. In truth, most individuals with this condition struggle to differentiate between specific colours, most ...

A RELATIVELY large number of color-vision abnormalities have recently been observed in alcoholic patients with cirrhosis, and the suggestion has been advanced that the X-linked genes causing color ...