During her PhD , Barbara worked to identify potential biomarkers of myopia development and discover early changes in the retina that could be measured by non-invasive optical procedures. She keeps pursuing this research project, now being a postdoctoral researcher at IOB.
Her studies show that the progressive loss of myelin during myopia development exposes nerve fibers in RNFL and increases fundus reflectivity in near-UV light, but not at longer wavelengths. Therefore, the increase in UV-reflectivity may be a possible in vivo marker of myopia development in this animal model.
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Inhibiting myopia by visual stimulation