"Blindness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.
| Descriptor ID |
D001766
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.751.941.162 C11.966.075 C23.888.592.763.941.162
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blindness" by people in Profiles.
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Characterizing the Genetic Basis for Inherited Retinal Disease: Lessons Learned From the Foundation Fighting Blindness Clinical Consortium's Gene Poll. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2025 Feb 03; 66(2):12.
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Factors Influencing Eye Screening Adherence Among Latinx Patients With Diabetes: A Qualitative Study. Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2023 12 01; 12(12):8.
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Characterization of Vascular Morphology of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Indocyanine Green Angiography. J Vis Exp. 2023 08 11; (198).
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Progressive Vision Loss in an Adult With Congenital Optic Nerve Coloboma, Hydrocephalus, and Basal Encephalocele. J Neuroophthalmol. 2024 Jun 01; 44(2):e236-e237.
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Health information seeking in the digital age: a national survey of women with disabilities. Disabil Rehabil. 2023 08; 45(17):2751-2760.
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Visual Loss as the Presenting Manifestation of Leptomeningeal Spread of Glioblastoma Multiforme to the Optic Chiasm. J Neuroophthalmol. 2024 Mar 01; 44(1):e49-e51.
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Advancing a Human Onchocerciasis Vaccine From Antigen Discovery to Efficacy Studies Against Natural Infection of Cattle With Onchocerca ochengi. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022; 12:869039.
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Transient Bilateral Visual Loss as the Presenting Symptom of High-Altitude Ascent-Related Cytotoxic Lesion of the Corpus Callosum. J Neuroophthalmol. 2023 Dec 01; 43(4):e268-e270.
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Hypnic Amaurosis Fugax. J Neuroophthalmol. 2022 03 01; 42(1):e357-e358.
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Multi-electrode stimulation evokes consistent spatial patterns of phosphenes and improves phosphene mapping in blind subjects. Brain Stimul. 2021 Sep-Oct; 14(5):1356-1372.