(a) Left: encoding of blink information, the schematic indicates that the brain generates specific commands and stimulates the eyes to blink accordingly when a specific situation is encountered.

A University of Houston engineering team has developed wearable sensors to examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the brain. Many brain diseases and problems show up as eye ...

Blinking exercises are preplanned, where you make a conscious effort to blink your eyes. They may help with dry eye disease. Dry eye is a common condition where your eyes don’t have enough tears to ...

Blink frequency of 20 blinks per minute improves tear meniscus height and tear break-up time in dry eye patients. The study involved 45 participants aged 14 to 35, using eye-tracking glasses to ...

The rhythmic action of blinking helps keep our vision sharp. Initially studied only in vision science, blinking is now also ...

Blinking generates an electrical signal that can be reliably measured. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by ...

Your eyes may reveal when your brain is working overtime. Researchers found that people blink less when trying to understand ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with or without dry eye had greater palpebral fissure height after 3 days of blinking exercises. Tear ...

Blinking is a human reflex most often performed without thinking, like breathing. Although research on blinking is usually related to vision, a new Concordia study examines how blinking is connected ...

Eye blinks are an interesting behavioral phenomenon that lies somewhere between the voluntary and involuntary realms. For example, we can certainly blink on purpose (e.g., sending messages in Morse ...