Macular degeneration causes visual distortion and even complete…

Macular degeneration causes visual distortion and even complete loss of sight. When the wife of 1 Nobel laureate Walter Kohn was 2 with macular degeneration, he wanted to do something. I spoke with him at the recent Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Germany. “We are developing a corrective device, including 3 with the patient, who is following a certain routine and who tells us his 4 that arise.” A macular degeneration patient looks at a completely regular grid on a computer screen. But because of the condition , the grid will appear distorted. The patient uses a mouse to adjust the grid to appear normal. “We will receive from the patient an edited piece of graph paper. And from the way the patient edits it, we can tell what the distortions are that he perceives, and from these we can then develop 5 that correct his distortions.”