A Field Requiring Study
The disorders have been studied in a very few institutions, including the former Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge University in England, and the Visual Stress Unit at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. As of 2012 the Visual Stress Unit offers non-commercial diagnostic and therapeutic services to individuals, and provides advice to the Scottish National Health Service. The small amount of peer-reviewed literature on the topic suggests that much is unknown, ranging from the 2011 study in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics Irlen Colored Overlays Do not Alleviate Reading Difficulties and the 2012 study in the journal Brain Topography A Functional Neuroimaging Case Study of Meares–Irlen Syndrome/Visual Stress (MISViS) . The first finds that there is no evidence for one of the fundamental claims of therapeutic benefit, the second presents evidence of unique brain function linked to the syndrome.
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