Health and Fitness

A Simple Eye Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

AUSTRALIA–(ENEWSPF)–December 20, 2013.  As you step outdoors into the bright sunshine, your pupils automatically contract. Scientists from the Australian Centre of Excellence in Vision Science (ACEVS) based at The Australian National University (ANU) are making use of how this ‘pupil reflex’ is connected to the brain as a potential new way of testing the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Dr Eman Ali and her ACEVS colleagues have used an instrument they…

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