Check Beneath the Eyes

"They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. However, to get a real idea of what a person is up to, according to UC Santa Barbara researchers Miguel Eckstein and Matt Peterson, the best place to check is right below the eyes. Their findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," according to a Science Daily post. "'It's pretty fast, it's effortless -- we're not really aware of what we're doing,' said Miguel Eckstein, professor of psychology in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. Using an eye tracker and more than 100 photos of faces and participants, Eckstein and graduate research assistant Peterson followed the gaze of the experiment's participants to determine where they look in the first crucial moment of identifying a person's identity, gender, and emotional state." Read more.

Discovery of How a Mutation Prevents Eye Muscle Control

Duane Syndrome

"A research team from King's College London and the University of Exeter Medical School has identified how a genetic mutation acts during the development of nerves responsible for controlling eye muscles, resulting in movement disorders such as Duane Syndrome, a form of squint," says Medical News Today. "The findings could provide the key to reversing the condition and unlocking the causes of movement disorders in other parts of the body. The research is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." Read more.

New Finding about Underlying Causes of Glaucoma

"The Glaucoma Research Foundation ... announced that novel new findings about the underlying cause of glaucoma have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," according to a post on MedicalNewsToday.