Question

Discuss an invention (e.g. contact lenses, Lasik) or drug humans have used to modify their sensory abilities. Please list and compare multiple advantages and disadvantages for using this item. Post a paragraph or two about a SENSORY DISORDER (EYE, EAR, TASTE, EQUILIBRIUM, ETC), describe the part of the nervous system that is associated to this disease and describe treatments or medicines that may help.

Answer 1

Intraocular lens have always been termed as a boom to the cataract surgeries.

Advantages- effective treatment of cataracts and luxated lens, aphakia

Disadvantages- immune response to foreign bodies as lens act as foreign body, needs further correction and skilled specialisation for use.

Sensory disorder- optic neuritis

It is a condition associated with inflammation of optic nerve such that visual acuity, dark adaptation, Colors blindness is lost. It occurs due to damage to optic nerve due to various conditions like, congenital anomalies, infections, drugs etc.

Optic nerve is associated with it and image sensory processing is inhibited. Treatment include corticosteroid therapy and interferon.