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The most common kinds of color blindness are genetic, meaning they’re passed down from parents. If your color blindness is genetic, your color vision will not get any better or worse over time. Conditions like color blindness are passed from parents to their children on groups of genes called chromosomes.

Some of these, called X and Y chromosomes, determine if you are male or female at birth. Males have 1 X chromosome and 1 Y chromosome, and females have 2 X chromosomes. The genes that can give you red-green color blindness are passed down on the X chromosome.

You can also get color blindness later in life if you have a disease or injury that affects your eyes or brain.

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The most common kinds of color blindness are genetic, meaning they're passed down from parents. Find out how color blindness is passed down from parents and what diseases or injuries can cause color blindness.

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Colorblindness - One organization promoting the disorder

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Colorblindness - One organization promoting the disorder

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Supporting mental healthcare centers such as people withe colorblindness. Supporting these organization benefits people in many ways, such as raising awareness addressing stigma and facilitating treatment. The mental health facilities also improve company culture and employee welfare.

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Supporting the right , and facilitate treatment and recovery for a variety of mental health issues while improving mental health organizations can help raise awareness, address company culture and employee wellness. Here are 12 mental health organizations to support.

1. Anxiety and Depression Association of America

The is focused on prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, and related conditions through education, practice, and research. The organization has a community of over 1,500 mental health professionals, many of whom contribute actively to research, education, and training.
Related: How to manage workplace anxiety
2. The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project includes resources such as crisis intervention tools, suicide prevention trainings, and other community resources.

3. National Alliance on Mental Illness

This organization publishes information about mental health and offers resources such as classes and training, mental health programs and events, and a helpline to recommend non-emergency resources and solutions.

4. National Council for Behavioral Health COVID-19 Fund
Related: Ease COVID-19 anxieties with online counseling
Conditions such as anxiety and depression have worsened for many employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

5. Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network

6. National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

Resources this organization provides include a queer and trans people of color health practitioner database, funding for those seeking mental health support, and practitioner development and community building.

7. Shatterproof

Shatterproof advocates for policy change at the federal and state level, such as the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT) Act. They also provide tools for education and for those seeking treatment.

8. Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective

Mental illness in the Black community must be addressed simultaneously with systemic issues such as "inequities in the criminal legal system, economic reform, HIV/AIDS, transphobia, homophobia, racism ... and other issues that challenge the wellness of Black communities," according to BEAM.

In addition to other resources, BEAM has mobile crisis unit services in some states.

9. National Center for Transgender Equality

They offer a variety of resources for transgender mental health issues, as well as for general health care, insurance, legal aid, and other related topics.

10. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

The foundation offers many resources for those who've contemplated suicide, those who've survived a suicide attempt, or affected family members. They also have established a crisis hotline at 800-273-8255.

11. National Federation of Families
Related: Mental health disability: Best practices for supporting and accommodating employees
The National Federation of Families focuses on advocacy for families to shape implementation of policies and funding for family and children's mental health services. They offer a variety of resources, such as trainings, courses, and seminars.

12. Center for Workplace Mental Health

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Colorblindness - Exact name of the disease

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The back of your eye contains light sensitive cells that help you perceive color. With achromatopsia aka (Colorblindness), you have limited or no color vision plus serious vision issues. In addition to being color blind, you may be sensitive to bright light and have low vision. Treatments aim to manage symptoms and maximize independence.

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Achromatopsia: Color Blindness and Other Vision Issues

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Achromatopsia is an inherited form of color blindness. It occurs when light-sensitive cells (cones) in the retina do not function as they should.

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Colorblindness - Symptoms of the disorder

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The most common color deficiency for Colorblindness some shades of red and green depending what Colorblindess u have. Often, a person who is red/green or blue/yellow deficient isn't completely insensitive to both colors. Defects can be mild, moderate or severe.

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Overview

Color blindness - or more accurately, poor or deficient color vision - is an inability to see the difference between certain colors. Though many people commonly use the term "color blind" for this condition, true color blindness - in which everything is seen in shades of black and white - is rare.

Color blindness is usually inherited. Men are more likely to be born with color blindness. Most people with color blindness can't distinguish between certain shades of red and green. Less commonly, people with color blindness can't distinguish between shades of blue and yellow.

Certain eye diseases and some medications also can cause color blindness.

Symptoms

You may have a color vision deficiency and not know it. Some people figure out that they or their child has the condition when it causes confusion - such as when there are problems differentiating the colors in a traffic light or interpreting color-coded learning materials.

People affected by color blindness may not be able to distinguish:

Different shades of red and green

Different shades of blue and yellow

Any colors

The most common color deficiency is an inability to see some shades of red and green. Often, a person who is red-green or blue-yellow deficient isn't completely insensitive to both colors. Defects can be mild, moderate or severe.

When to see a doctor

If you suspect you have problems distinguishing certain colors or your color vision changes, see an eye doctor for testing. It's important that children get comprehensive eye exams, including color vision testing, before starting school.

There's no cure for inherited color deficiencies, but if illness or eye disease is the cause, treatment may improve color vision.

Causes

Seeing colors across the light spectrum is a complex process that begins with your eyes' ability to respond to different wavelengths of light.

Light, which contains all color wavelengths, enters your eye through the cornea and passes through the lens and transparent, jellylike tissue in your eye (vitreous humor) to wavelength-sensitive cells (cones) at the back of your eye in the macular area of the retina. The cones are sensitive to short (blue), medium (green) or long (red) wavelengths of light. Chemicals in the cones trigger a reaction and send the wavelength information through your optic nerve to your brain.

If your eyes are normal, you perceive color. But if your cones lack one or more wavelength-sensitive chemicals, you will be unable to distinguish the colors red, green or blue.

Color blindness has several causes:

Inherited disorder. Inherited color deficiencies are much more common in males than in females. The most common color deficiency is red-green, with blue-yellow deficiency being much less common. It is rare to have no color vision at all.

You can inherit a mild, moderate or severe degree of the disorder. Inherited color deficiencies usually affect both eyes, and the severity doesn't change over your lifetime.

Diseases. Some conditions that can cause color deficits are sickle cell anemia, diabetes, macular degeneration, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, Parkinson's disease, chronic alcoholism and leukemia. One eye may be more affected than the other, and the color deficit may get better if the underlying disease can be treated.

Certain medications. Some medications can alter color vision, such as some drugs that treat certain autoimmune diseases, heart problems, high blood pressure, erectile dysfunction, infections, nervous disorders and psychological problems.

Aging. Your ability to see colors deteriorates slowly as you age.

Chemicals. Exposure to some chemicals in the workplace, such as carbon disulfide and fertilizers, may cause loss of color vision.

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Color blindness - or more accurately, poor or deficient color vision - is an inability to see the difference between certain colors. Though many people commonly use the term "color blind" for this condition, true color blindness - in which everything is seen in shades of black and white - is rare.

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Colorblindness - Research being done on this disorder

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Colorblindness - Research being done on this disorder

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Researchers are using gene therapy to cure red/green color blindness in adult monkeys. This accomplishment is an important step toward developing gene therapy treatments for eye conditions in humans.

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Researchers used gene therapy to cure red-green color blindness in adult monkeys. The accomplishment is an important step toward developing gene therapy treatments for eye conditions in humans.

The retina, a light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye, contains light receptor cells called rods and cones. Cones allow us to see in bright light and provide our color vision. Primates can have 3 types of cones, each containing a special pigment (a photopigment called opsin) that is most sensitive to a particular wavelength of light. All 3 types of cones are needed for the brain to process full color vision.

When an individual has only 1 or 2 types of cones that are fully functional, they are considered color blind, meaning they can't distinguish certain colors. The inability to perceive red or green is the most common form of color blindness-and the most common single-gene genetic disorder in humans. It's caused by mutations in either the long- (L) or the middle- (M) wavelength-sensitive visual photopigments. In addition to causing day-to-day problems-like not being able to tell when you're getting sunburned-severe red-green color blindness can exclude you from certain jobs.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Jay Neitz at the University of Washington set out to see if it's possible to cure red-green color blindness in adults. Even if the eyes could be altered to detect another color, it was unclear whether the adult brain would be able to perceive the new wavelengths.

The researchers used squirrel monkeys as a model. The genes causing red-green color blindness, in both people and monkeys, are on the X chromosome, one of the 2 sex chromosomes. Males have only one X chromosome, so one altered copy of the gene can cause the condition, accounting for higher rates in males. Male squirrel monkeys have it even worse than human males: while 1 in 12 men are unable to distinguish between certain colors, all male squirrel monkeys are red-green color blind.

In work supported by NIH's National Eye Institute (NEI), the scientists used subretinal injections to deliver the human L-opsin gene to the retinal photoreceptor layer of 2 monkeys missing the L-opsin gene. Prior to treatment, the monkeys were trained to touch the location of a colored patch hidden among gray dots in a computerized test. Similar to color-blind humans, the monkeys couldn't distinguish red or green before treatment.

Weeks after treatment, the monkeys passed the test easily for all colors, the scientists reported in the online edition of Nature on September 16, 2009. The monkeys could see colors they never could before, demonstrating that the adult nervous system is capable of responding to newly added sensory input.

These results echo recent successes using gene therapy to treat people with Leber congenital amaurosis, an inherited retinal disease that causes severe visual impairment in infancy or early childhood. Taken together, these encouraging results could open the way to treatments for a broad range of eye diseases.

-by Harrison Wein, Ph.D.

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Researchers used gene therapy to cure red-green color blindness in adult monkeys. The accomplishment is an important step toward developing gene therapy treatments for eye conditions in humans. The retina, a light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye, contains light receptor cells called rods and cones.

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Colorblindness - Treatment of the disorder

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There is no cure for Colorblindness, but scientist have created the use of special glasses and contact lenses that can help. Most people who are color blind are able to adjust and don’t have problems with everyday activities.

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There's no cure for color blindness that's passed down in families, but most people find ways to adjust to it. Children with color blindness may need help with some classroom activities, and adults with color blindness may not be able to do certain jobs, like being a pilot or graphic designer. Keep in mind that most of the time, color blindness doesn't cause serious problems.

If your color blindness is happening because of another health problem, your doctor will treat the condition that's causing the problem. If you're taking a medicine that causes color blindness, your doctor may adjust how much you take or suggest you switch to a different medicine.

If color blindness is causing problems with everyday tasks, there are devices and technology that can help, including:

Talk over your options with your eye doctor. Remember these tips:

Ask your doctor about visual aids and technology that can help you with everyday tasks

Encourage family members to get checked for color blindness, since it can run in families

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If you have color blindness, it means you see colors differently than most people. Most of the time, color blindness makes it hard to tell the difference between certain colors. Read about the types of color blindness and its symptoms, risk factors, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.

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Colorblindness - How many people does this disorder affect

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There are over 300 million people in the world with Colorblindness

- 1 in 12 men are color blind (8%).
- 1 in 200 women are color blind (0.5%).

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Color blindness is incredibly common, impacting millions of people in the world. Many people have no idea that they are color blind and are not seeing the wide breadth of color that others see. At Clinton Eye Associates, we have been helping residents of Clinton, CT determine whether or not they are colorblind for many years. If you suspect your acre color blind, here's what you need to know.

Who Can Be Color Blind?

Men and women of all ages can be color blind, but the condition is much more common in men than in women. Often, people discover they are color blind when they are children and can adapt to this difference early on. In other cases, people do not realize they are color blind until they are adults.

What Does Color Blindness Involve?

For most people, being color blind means they are unable to see all colors. Some people might struggle to differentiate between different colors when they see them. The two most common types of color blindness are red-green color blindness and blue-yellow color blindness.

Is Your Child Color Blind?

An optometrist is often the first to notice color blindness in children. If you think your child is exhibiting symptoms of color blindness, consult with an optometrist to diagnose the condition. In many cases, color blindness is confused with different types of learning disorders, so having the appropriate knowledge will be helpful. For instance, a teacher who knows your child is color blind may be less likely to use certain types of colors in the classroom. This ensures your child does not miss out on crucial information.

Can Color Blindness Be Cured?

While there is not a cure for color blindness, there are a few options available to help. Some glasses can be used to address some vision issues, but in other cases, building awareness of the issue is the most important thing. With knowledge of the impairment, you can adjust in your life as necessary.

Schedule an Eye Exam with Our Optometrist in Clinton, CT

Clinton Eye Associates in Clinton CT can help you identify color blindness. If you think you might be color blind, contact our office today for an eye exam. We can help you diagnose the issue and help you move forward. Call us today at (860) 669-2020 for more information or to schedule an appointment with our eye doctor.

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Facts about Color Blindness and EnChroma

There are an estimated 300 million people in the world with color vision deficiency.

1 in 12 men are color blind (8%).

1 in 200 women are color blind (0.5%).

Color blindness, or color vision deficiency (CVD), is typically inherited genetically and carried recessively on the X chromosome. While color blindness is often considered a mild disability, studies estimate that two-thirds of people with CVD feel it's a handicap. Red-green color blindness doesn't mean only color confusion with red and green colors; much of the color spectrum can cause confusion.

Enchroma glasses are the only specialty eyewear that alleviate red-green color blindness, enhancing colors without compromising color accuracy. Enchroma started in 2010, after ten years of R&D.

Did You Know?

Many people with color blindness cannot tell that the power connector on a MacBook changes color. Lots of color blind people are surprised to find out that peanut butter is not green.
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Color Blindness I Clinton Eye Associates | Clinton, CT Optometrist

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Color blindness is incredibly common, impacting millions of people in the world. Many people have no idea that they are color blind and are not seeing the wide breadth of color that others see. At Clinton Eye Associates, we have been helping residents of Clinton, CT determine whether or not they are colorblind for many years.