{"id":199992,"date":"2024-11-23T03:28:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/prototype-lenses-can-block-epileptic-seizure-causing-wavelengths"},"modified":"2024-11-23T03:28:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:28:51","slug":"prototype-lenses-can-block-epileptic-seizure-causing-wavelengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/prototype-lenses-can-block-epileptic-seizure-causing-wavelengths","title":{"rendered":"Prototype lenses can block epileptic-seizure causing wavelengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prototype-lenses-can-block-epileptic-seizure-causing-wavelengths2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with photosensitive epilepsy could benefit from a prototype pair of glasses with lenses that block out wavelengths that are known to cause seizures in some people.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports-physical-science\/fulltext\/S2666-3864(24)00443-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666386424004430%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Cell Reports Physical Science<\/i><\/a>, researchers from the University of Glasgow and University of Birmingham have developed a prototype of a liquid crystal lens that they believe could help photosensitive epilepsy sufferers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lenses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lenses<\/a> are controlled by very small changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">temperature<\/a> that can be built into the lens, and when activated can block more than 98% of light in the 660\u2013720nm wavelength range, known to affect the greatest number of people suffering from photosensitive epilepsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with photosensitive epilepsy could benefit from a prototype pair of glasses with lenses that block out wavelengths that are known to cause seizures in some people. In a study published in Cell Reports Physical Science, researchers from the University of Glasgow and University of Birmingham have developed a prototype of a liquid crystal lens [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}