Color blindness

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  • 1. Color BlindnessBy Danielle simpson

2. Color blindness Means that you have trouble seeing red,green,or bluecolors. Its very rare that you wont be able to see no color Its mostly inherited and is presented at birth. 3. Three Cone Cells S-cone (blue) M-cone (green) L-cone (red) 4. Types of Color Blindness Monochromatism- either no cones are available or only one is. Dichramatism-only two cones are there. Anomalous trichramatism-all cones are there but they have shifted Tritanopia-missing s-cone(blue) Dueteranopia-missing m-cone(green) Protanopia-missing L-cone(red) 5. Its treated how? If you inherited it you cant be treated from it. Some can be treated depending on the cause for example:if you have cataracts then it can be removed throughsurgery. Wearing glasses can help you see the difference of thecolors Learning the order of the stop lights 6. Diagnosed The dot test- you have to find the pattern to find a letter or a numberthe pattern you see will let the doctor know what colors you haveproblems with The color chips- you have to arrange them in order according to howsimilar the colors are. People with color vision problems cant arrangethem correctly. 7. Symptoms You may be able to see some colors but notothers. You may see a few shades of colors Ion rare cases you may see black, white, andgray. 8. Children Doctors are recommending they get checkedaround 3 to the age of 4 so that they can findout early if you have color blindness. 9. Inherited Color blindness mostly happens to the malegene instead of the female gene. 10. Punnet Square