Clinical Trials

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients 4-90 years or older.
• Patients  with visual acuity between 20/20 and 20/200.
• New or established Patients having a diagnosis of autism ages 4-18, (n=20), enrolled through cognitive disorder clinic.
• Patients ages 4-90, (n=110) with optic neuritis, compressive optic neuropathy, ischemic optic neuropathy, and traumatic optic neuropathy, enrolled through ophthalmology.

Exclusion Criteria: 

• Subjects with high standard deviation on the testing, which indicates unreliable results.      
• Subjects with a history of photosensitivity or history of photosensitivity resulting in seizures.
  • Note that since all tests performed in ophthalmology involve lights and are used on a daily basis in ophthalmology in patients with a history of seizures, only patients with a history of seizures induced by lights will be automatically excluded. 
• Patients who are not light sensitive with a seizure disorder will be invited to participate.